Hello, muh friends 
In Fedora one can install groups of packages with the sudo dnf groupinstall packagegroupname, example: sudo dnf groupinstall games to install lots of games. Or searching for a group of packages, sudo dnf grouplist and a list is listed.
Is there something similar in Archlabs?
And may I install pamac in Archlabs? I prefer to install packages via cli, but sometimes is useful to seek packages thru a gui-package-manager like pamac. It was using pamac that I found cool-retro-term and many other applications.
Pacman has package groups, this is reliant on the packager adding it, aside from that it works like you’d expect.
% pacman -S xfce4
[sudo] password for nate:
:: There are 15 members in group xfce4:
:: Repository extra
1) exo 2) garcon 3) thunar 4) thunar-volman 5) tumbler 6) xfce4-appfinder 7) xfce4-panel 8) xfce4-power-manager 9) xfce4-session 10) xfce4-settings 11) xfce4-terminal
12) xfconf 13) xfdesktop 14) xfwm4 15) xfwm4-themes
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (26) libwnck3-3.32.0-2 libxfce4ui-4.14.1-2 libxfce4util-4.14.0-1 libxklavier-5.4-2 libxpresent-1.0.0-1 libxres-1.2.0-1 perl-uri-1.76-2 polkit-gnome-0.105-4
startup-notification-0.12-6 vte-common-0.58.2-1 vte3-0.58.2-1 exo-0.12.8-1 garcon-0.6.4-1 thunar-1.8.9-2 thunar-volman-0.9.5-2 tumbler-0.2.7-1 xfce4-appfinder-4.14.0-1
xfce4-panel-4.14.1-1 xfce4-power-manager-1.6.5-2 xfce4-session-4.14.0-2 xfce4-settings-4.14.1-1 xfce4-terminal-0.8.8-2 xfconf-4.14.1-1 xfdesktop-4.14.1-2 xfwm4-4.14.0-1
xfwm4-themes-4.10.0-3
Total Download Size: 7.71 MiB
Total Installed Size: 44.07 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
To see what groups are available for the repos you currently use
pacman -Sg
See pacman(1) for more info.
Of course you can install pamac, there’s an aur package out there for it.
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Thank you very much, @natemaia.
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