Solseek Now Available

Original-Syn

AlphaElwedritsch I appreciate the thought. I have worked on software for a long time, so yeah, I do understand your point. My idea is more again working along with native tools. But in either case, that is down the road.

I did get the package submission in, so assuming the Solus team accepts it, I will hopefully get it pushed through.

https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/6637

Original-Syn

LOL I didn't even know that Solseek got a news post about it.

https://linuxiac.com/solseek-brings-a-fast-tui-based-package-manager-to-solus-linux

Original-Syn

Just a heads up for everyone: the package was approved, and I am testing it in unstable. Much thanks to @Harvey helping me fumble my way through my first package on Solus. So it should be available after next week's sync.

brent

Original-Syn Just a heads up for everyone: the package was approved

if they stamped you this fast then 1) they know it's a good product for the distro and 2) they have an instant maintainer.

thanks for doing this. since I installed it I got rid of Discover and not looked at gnone-software. it has value.

so repo inclusion means that solseek can execute an update for solseek?
I think eopkg updates itself so I think the answer is yes 🙂

Axios

Cool
Yes Harvey is a real helper to everyone and the forum.

Original-Syn

brent

so repo inclusion means that solseek can execute an update for solseek?

Yes, once you install it as a package, which you can do from the git install version, it can update itself.

I had to do a double take when I say it actually made news on the Linuxiac website, But hey, it is all fun. I just enjoy doing something that is not just my daily job.

alfisya

Original-Syn I just enjoy doing something that is not just my daily job.

You mean slacking off? 😛

Original-Syn

alfisya

Original-Syn

Well been thinking about a few key add-ons for the next version.

One would be the talked-about showing if there are updates available when you launch. Basically using calls using pkcon - credit @Sebastian and the flapak remote-ls --updates command I can quickly check. It will show on the Welcome screen as well as the Update System screen. It is low overhead, so it doesn't really slow things down. When there are updates for system or flatpak it will show how many. This is not a system notification, but looking into something on that as well.

The second part is the Flatpak equivalent to the System package management. You will be able to list, search, install/uninstall Flatpaks the same way you do regular system packages. There were some limitations on the flatpak command on getting proper details, so I have to use appstreamcli to get the full details of a package, but that is already on Solus, so that helps.

This would allow for a more complete package management system where you could do both system and flatpak packages. It will be a separate list, so not a universal search across both at first, but will see down the line.

No etas on this as the current version is not even in the Stable Solus repo, but just want to give a heads up on what is coming.

skibz

Original-Syn Being able to install flatpaks would make this the best replacement for gnome software and discover.

Julien68

I would like to report a small bug (installation via eopkg via the unstable branch).
First of all, I would like to say a big thank you for this great utility, it's a really good idea.
Now to the small bug: I go to the second line (list of all packages)
I search for brave, for example, which is already installed

I select it to uninstall it.

When I return to the list of all packages, it no longer appears.

I have to exit and restart the software for it to reappear.

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Original-Syn

Julien68
Thanks for letting me know!

Original-Syn

@Julien68 Found the issue. It is a cache issue. After this goes live next week in repo. I will look at pushing out an update sometime after. Thanks again for letting me know.

alfisya

Original-Syn You can always PR the update now for the unstable user to test. If you already fixed a release or course.

Patrice

@Original-Syn , I translated Solseek files in French. Please let me know how I can send them to you.

Original-Syn

Solseek Official Package

Alright, just a heads-up to those using Solseek. After the next Solus sync day, Solseek should be available to install from the Polaris repository. It has been in Unstable. I recommend installing it from the repo, that way you will get updates automatically. I will be removing the manual install option from the Github page.

This is the same version you have installed, so it will be no different.

Support, Requests, and Contributing

To avoid flooding the Solus forum, please use the GitHub page to post issues you find. It will help me track and update. The same goes for any feature requests.

Also for contributing, especially with languages, I will write a guide how to use the GitHub site to do a PR. Again, to avoid clogging up the forum and making it easier to track.

I would ask to wait until after 0.3.0 is released before looking at localization contributions. As I simplify some of the language files.

https://github.com/clintre/solseek

The next version 0.3.0 (Coming soon)

I am testing the next version, which is the introduction of a few keep components to make this more of a full-featured package manager.

Key features / Bug fixes

[bugfix] Clearing cache so when you install/uninstall package, the list reflects the change.
[cleanup] Cleaning up the text to minimize it a bit to make localization easier. For this reason, @Patrice it may be in a 0.3.x follow-up release before I get your translations in. Just want to clean it up a bit first.
[feature] Update check and display. When you start Solseek it will show if there are any updates available for Solus or Flatpak.
[feature] Optional, if you have Fastfetch installed, you will see your basic system information when launching Solseek. Utilization of CPU, Mem, and Storage
[feature] Full Flatpak management. Brings the same level of capability to Flatpak in Solseek as there is for eopkg. You will now be able to list, search, and manage Flatpak in the same way you can Solus packages through Solseek.

When? Yeah you know the rule, no ETAs 😉

Here is a teaser...

brent

Original-Syn should I get rid of the all your github install stuff? or will solus install over it?
PS--congrats!

Julien68

Original-Syn
Thank you very much, great work. We can say that we now have a replacement for Solus-SC with more features.
Adding Flatpak is a great idea; it's much more complete this way.
I might suggest an idea in memory of Solus-SC, I'll use GitHub.

bubba66

Original-Syn

Very nice thank you 🙂

brent

Borderliner I'm on Polaris and package solseek is not available.

I noticed this too.

Original-Syn After the next Solus sync day, Solseek should be available to install from the Polaris repository. It has been in Unstable.

then I re-read ^

Original-Syn

brent It will install over it. I did a test run from Unstable to make sure.

brent

thank you much

AlphaElwedritsch

Cool, then I'll start doing that tomorrow.

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