Pkg Review without colors on CachyOS July 2025 ISO install without Fish and Zsh (SOLVED)

[uni-om]

Hi there folks.

• I did a fresh install using CachyOS July 2025 ISO release and i opted for using bash, so i unchecked fish and Zsh. These were the only customizations i did, everything was set as default.

• After the install i noticed that paru package review was not exhibiting colors, despite the fact that it was displaying colors when listing the availables packages for install.

• I double checked everything i could, like pacman.conf, enviroment variables, diff, git-diff, paginators (less, cat..) and did a lot of debuging and tests trying to find out where it could be going wrong. Upon reading 'man paru' i came with these entries:

--bat
The command to use for bat calls. This can be a command in PATH or an absolute path
to the file.

   --batflags <flags>
          Passes arguments to bat. These flags get passed to every instance where bat is called
          by  paru.  Arguments  are  split  on  whitespace before being passed to bat. Multiple
          arguments may be passed by supplying a space separated list that  is  quoted  by  the
          shell.

• Upon trying to check the 'bat' paginator i found out that it was not installed on the system.

After installing 'bat', paru began to properly display the package review using colors.

Thank you for providing us with 'paru',
Peace!!!