🔎 fzpac

fzpac is a pacman wrapper, an Arch Linux package finder with fuzzy finder.

Demo

Features

Quickly find the packages you are looking for with fuzzy search and preview.
Uses easy-to-use APT-like subcommands.
You can immediately install / uninstall the packages that you selected.
Supports Tab completion in multiple shells.
- bash (bash-completion package required)
- fish
- zsh (zsh-completions package required)
Supports multiple AUR helpers such as paru and yay .
Supports multiple fuzzy finders such as fzf and skim .

Try fzpac

To try fzpac quickly, run the following command:

curl -LO git.io/fzpac && chmod +x fzpac

Usage

Run this command
Select the packages with fuzzy finder
You can view the package info or install / uninstall it immediately

Help Message

fzpac -- Arch Linux package finder with fuzzy finder

USAGE
    fzpac SUBCMD [KEYWORDS...]
    fzpac --help|--version

SUBCMD
    s, search        search for all available packages
    l, local         search for already installed packages
    S, install       select packages and INSTALL it
    R, remove        select packages and UNINSTALL it
    A, autoremove    select packages that are no longer needed and UNINSTALL it.
    h, help          show help message
    v, version       show version

OPTIONS
    -h, --help           show help message
    -v, --version        show version

KEY BINDINGS
    <C-j>, <C-n>  move focus down
    <C-k>, <C-p>  move focus up
    <C-s>         show information of the package
    <Tab>         select a package
    <CR>          confirm selection

Installation

Dependence

Requires fzf, sk or your favorite fuzzy finder, but recommended one is fzf or sk to use full features.

If fzf or sk is not installed, install it with the following command:

sudo pacman -S fzf
# or
sudo pacman -S sk

If you want to use other fuzzy finder, see FZPAC_FINDER section in Configuration.

Optional

AUR Helper

If you have the following AUR helpers installed, fzpac will use that command in preference to pacman .

Tab Completion on the Shells

bash

To use Tab completion with bash, install the bash-completion package.

sudo pacman -S bash-completion

then, add the following contents to your ~/.bashrc .

_set_completion() {
    local bash_completion
    bash_completion='/usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion'
    [ -f "${bash_completion}" ] && source "${bash_completion}"
}

_set_completion

fish

Complete functions are built into fish so you don't need to install any additional packages.

zsh

To use Tab completion with zsh, requires zsh-completions package.

sudo pacman -S zsh-completions

then, append this commands on your .zshrc to activate completion.

autoload -U compinit
compinit -u

Install with PKGBUILD (Recommend)

Run below if you want to install the latest stable version with PKGBUILD . After a successful installation, you can manage fzpac as an Arch Linux package.

# install base-devel package
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
# cd to some empty directory to build package
cd "$(mktemp -d)"
# download PKGBUILD file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sheepla/fzpac/main/aur/PKGBUILD
# build package and install
makepkg -si

Install from the latest commit

Run below if you want to install the latest commit version.

git clone https://github.com/sheepla/fzpac
cd fzpac
sudo make install

Configurations

FZPAC_PACMAN

To change the AUR helper command to use, run fzpac with the value of the "${FZPAC_PACMAN}" variable set.

This value is a colon-separated list like a "${PATH}" variable, elements are but commands not directories. fzpac tries to use each of the commands in "${FZPAC_PACMAN}" in turn as a pacman command to find packages. So fallback to following commands if the preceding one isn't found.

If no "${FZPAC_PACMAN}" is set or empty, fzpac assumes the value is paru:yay:pacman.

Note that fzpac assumes commands in "${FZPAC_PACMAN}" supports pacman compatible arguments. So maybe fzpac doesn't work as expected if the commands don't support them.

# Elements are command name or path.
FZPAC_PACMAN="aur-helper1:/path/to/aur-helper2:..." fzpac ...

# Precede your favorite AUR helper if you want to give priority to it.
FZPAC_FINDER="yay:paru:..." fzpac ...

To always use this setting, add the following line to your ~/.bashrc or other shell rc file

export FZPAC_PACMAN="aur-helper1:/path/to/aur-helper2:..."

FZPAC_FINDER

Almost the same as "${FZPAC_PACMAN}", but this is to config the fuzzy finder which is used in fzpac.

If no "${FZPAC_FINDER}" is set or empty, fzpac assumes the value is fzf:sk:peco:gof:fzy .

Contribution

Issue or PR is welcome!❤