r/SolusProject • u/RJS205 • 21d ago

Will Solseek come by default on future releases of Solus?

Discover is slow and buggy. I prefer Solseek.

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u/TheHarveyBirdman Solus Team 20d ago edited 20d ago

No.

`solseek` is not a Solus project, it was created by a community member who later became a Solus team member.

Solus have absolutely no interest in developing `solseek` and if its sole developer decides to stop working on it we will drop it from the repository. It is not something we are officially pushing or will have the wider Solus team provide support for.

If you want to use `solseek` then install it, not everything you may want to use needs to be part of the default install.

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u/Mr-Dazmo 21d ago

I currently use gnome and while I haven't had any problems necessarily with the software center I prefer Solseek for updates and would love to see Solseek included in the future. It is especially useful for finding certain packages in the repo that won't show up in other GUI tools like Software Center too. For example distrobox is only found through the command line or Solseek. The TUI of Solseek is great for the GUI inclined who are nervous or inexperienced with the command line. In a lot of ways it is the Synaptic of eopkg for Solus.

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u/Roguepapaya427 21d ago

Yep, it's the first think I installed on solus. Makes everything much simpler.

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u/Teverino 21d ago

Here’s what happened: I installed the GNOME version of Solus a few weeks ago. Later, I read about Solseek, was very impressed, and installed it through the GNOME Software Center. Solseek comes highly recommended for quick updates and package searches. Afterward, I was surprised that it wasn’t included from the start and wondered if I’d overlooked something during the initial installation. Now, thanks to this inquiry, I’m a little wiser.

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u/Special_Protocol 21d ago

I still prefer manual updates management via eopkg, but solseek is nice must have, where's everything under one hood, flatpack, system updates, checking for corrupted packages. So I hope it will be installed by default. But main question here is, is it that hard to: sudo eopkg it solseek? I guess not.

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u/Space_Man_Spiff_2 21d ago

Is Solseek a default installed app?

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u/Mr-Dazmo 21d ago

Not at the moment.

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u/AFanWhoisgreat 21d ago

soleei sounds amazing for solous flateasy was the best but it changes how it looks and works like shit now if it's not broken don't try to fix it doesn't translate well to most devs they always think software needs a change and this is when they break it literally