#18 Introduce pacman or yay support

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: louisboii747
Originally owned by: louisboii747

Add Pacman/AUR Package Support for Arch-based Distributions

HardwareMon now has dedicated APT repositories for Debian-based distributions, making installation seamless for those users. RHEL/RPM support is also nearing completion via YUM/DNF repos.

Request
To achieve full Linux distribution coverage, add support for Arch-based distributions via pacman and/or an AUR (yay) package.

This would complete the package manager trifecta:

• APT (Debian/Ubuntu) — done
• YUM/DNF (RHEL/Fedora) — done
• Pacman/AUR (Arch/Manjaro) — planned

Proposed approach

• Publish an AUR package (hardwaremon or hardwaremon-bin) installable via yay or paru
• Optionally provide a PKGBUILD in the repository for manual builds

Arch Linux and its derivatives (Manjaro, EndeavourOS, etc.) represent a significant portion of the Linux user base. Adding AUR support would make HardwareMon accessible across all major Linux distribution families.

[Anonymous]

• assigned_to: louisboii747

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: louisboii747

Arch Linux support is temporarily paused while HardwareMon undergoes a rewrite for Flutter and a compiled backend. The focus is currently on finalizing the Flutter implementation, with ⁠yay⁠ and ⁠pacman⁠ support returning shortly. The issue will remain open.

Stay tuned for updates!