I thought it would be nice to have a thread on the subject of using SuperCollider on Arch based linux (Arch Linux, Manjaro etc) distributions since there are quite a few nice packages and tricks for using SuperCollider on these distros. This makes it pretty easy to install a lot of plugins for example and keep everything up to date.
So, feel free to post your tips and tricks for using SuperCollider on these distros.
I use the excellent tool topgrade to update my system. It will run pacman, yay or paru, and any other package manager it finds on your system. Additionally (and this is where it gets particularly interesting for SC-users), you can set it to update git repos, so you could for example put this into you .config/topgrade.toml file:
and it will keep your quarks up to date together with everything else you need.
A while ago I wrote a blog post about setting up Arch on my ASUS laptop: Setting Up Arch Linux on Asus A15 | Roosna & Flak with a lot of tips on general configuration and usage for pro audio. Might also be interesting to check out, with the caveat that all those install-tutorials usually end up being out of date within a few months, so always consult the official wiki first!
There is now a package group called supercollider-plugins on the AUR. This allows the user to install pretty much all plugins on AUR (except sc3-plugins which is in the main repo) using this command:
