Lumina

Arch Linux · GTK4 · 0.1.0

Lumina

Package manager for Arch. pacman for the official repos. paru for the AUR, or yay if you don't have paru.

Install, remove, and update show the command first. You confirm it, then the output shows up.

Install GitHub
curl -fsSL /install.sh | bash

Host is filled in from this page.

Lumina installed packages, with origin badges and a details panel
Installed packages

What's in the window

--noconfirm is added only after you confirm. The log is the real process, not a progress bar standing in for it.

Installed

Name, version, size, origin. Filters for explicit, official, AUR, and orphans. The side panel has dependencies, required-by, homepage, and licenses.

Updates

Pending upgrades from the repos and the AUR. Update the system, sync the databases, or upgrade one package. The line is whatever pacman or your helper would run.

Discover

Common apps, with icons, grouped into web, creative, games, media, and development. Search is there if you already know the package name.

Tools

Orphans, cache size, and a disk bar for apps, files, cache, and free space. Removing orphans or cleaning the cache shows the command first.

Screenshots

Discover page listing apps from the official repos and the AUR
Discover
Tools page with storage, orphans, and cache
Tools
Install dialog showing the command before it runs
Install dialog
Remove dialog showing the command before it runs
Remove dialog

Alternatives

Other ways to install packages on Arch, and where they differ.

Pamac
The usual one on Manjaro. Looks finished. The pacman command stays inside it.
Octopi
Qt front-end. It's been around for years. You don't get the argv before it runs.
GNOME Software, Discover
App stores. Fine if you want Flatpak. Not a console for pacman, and the AUR is barely there.
The terminal
Still does the whole job. Lumina is for the list, the filters, and the details, with the command left on screen.

Install

This site serves the script. It downloads Lumina from the same host, checks SHA-256, then runs the installer. The hash catches a truncated file. It does not make plain HTTP safe. Use HTTPS if you aren't on your own network.

curl -fsSL /install.sh | bash

What it installs

  • lumina in ~/.local/bin, plus a desktop entry and an icon
  • Missing libraries via pacman: Python, GTK4, libadwaita, polkit
  • AUR only if paru or yay is already installed. paru if both are.

Before you run it

  • Arch, or an Arch-based system
  • A polkit agent in the session. On Hyprland that's often polkit-kde-agent
  • ~/.local/bin on PATH. The installer says so if it isn't.

Other commands

curl -fsSL /install.sh | bash -s -- --system

All users, under /usr/local.

curl -fsSL /install.sh | bash -s -- --uninstall

Removes the current-user install. Add --system to remove /usr/local.

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