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qpac

A package manager for Arch Linux that runs in the terminal. It is meant to bring pacman, the AUR, Flatpak and Snap together in one simple interface that feels like an app store, and it shows exactly what will change before anything does.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quvyta/quvyta/main/install.sh | sh -s -- packages
Source on GitHub crates.io Release notes

Beta. qpac finds software in the repositories, the AUR, Flatpak and Snap and installs and removes from all four; AUR packages are built with paru or yay once you have read their recipes. The interface may still change between releases.

qpac in twenty-five seconds, recorded by its own tests: Discover opens, a search is answered across the repositories, Flatpak and the AUR, an application's page follows, the confirmation counts the seven packages one by one, pacman's own output runs below the list, and the Updates tab shows what is waiting beside the latest Arch news.

What it does

A store for Arch, and every change shown first.

  • Discover

    Popular apps and what is popular in the AUR, as cards, with the kinds of software on the left. Typing searches the repositories, the AUR, Flatpak and Snap at once, and one application found in several sources is one card. A snap has no kind of its own, because snapd does not give one, so snaps sit under Other and are found by searching.

  • An application's page

    Its description, version, licence, sizes, website and dependencies, with an Install or Remove button. Categories and descriptions come from AppStream, the data GNOME Software and KDE Discover use.

  • Installed

    Your applications, or every package, in a table you can search and sort, with the source of each and a detail panel. It is read straight from pacman's local database, so it opens at once; Flatpaks and snaps are not in this table yet and carry an Installed mark on their cards in Discover instead.

  • Updates that never leave you half upgraded

    Waiting updates by source, restart notes, and the latest Arch news above them. The check uses a private copy of pacman's database, and Update all can take a snapper or timeshift snapshot first.

  • Changes you can see

    Before anything runs, pacman is asked what the change would do, and the full list, dependencies included, waits for you to confirm. Cancel has the focus.

  • Your password stays with polkit or sudo

    The first change asks for it once; qpac never sees it. A locked database is explained, never forced, and orphans can be cleaned up in one step.

  • The AUR recipe, read before it runs

    A package from the AUR is built only after its recipe is on your screen, beside the one you approved last time, with rules pointing at the risky lines. Only Reviewed, install starts the build, and the build never gets a shell with privileges.

  • Four sources, one list

    The repositories, the AUR, Flatpak and Snap: qpac installs from and removes through all four. snapd is read on its own socket as you, and a snap that needs classic confinement is a question of its own, so what you confirm is always what happens.

  • English and Turkish

    Every word on screen comes from a language file. More languages are welcome; the framework already carries nine.

Screens

Find it, read about it, confirm it.

A search for obs: one card per application across the repositories, Flatpak and the AUR, with counts per kind on the left
One search across the repositories, Flatpak and the AUR.
OBS Studio's page: description, version, licence, download and installed sizes, repository, website, dependencies and an Install button
An application's page, with its Install button.
An AUR recipe on screen: the PKGBUILD with a rule pointing at a line that downloads and runs code, and the Reviewed, install button
An AUR recipe, read before anything is built.
The Installed tab: every package with its source, version and size, neovim selected with its details beside the list, neovim and tmux checked for removal
Installed, with the detail panel beside the list.
The removal confirmation: neovim and tmux with the libraries only they needed, eight packages in all
The confirmation, with every package that goes.
The Updates tab: three updates from the repositories with a restart note beside the kernel, a recent Arch news item above them, Check now and Update all
Updates by source, with a restart note and the latest Arch news.
The removal running: pacman's output in a pane below the list, the progress at half way and the admin badge in the header
pacman at work, below the list.
The settings page: the sources with the AUR through paru, Flatpak missing and a button to install it, and Snap with what it would take; below them the AUR helper, the check in the background and the snapshot before and after updating
Settings: a missing source, and the way to add it.

Install

The family's installer builds qpac from crates.io with cargo. It asks before every step, installs Rust with rustup if it is missing, and never uses sudo.

The program is installed as qpac and also as quvyta-packages. On Windows, and for every other way in, see Install.

Linux and macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quvyta/quvyta/main/install.sh | sh -s -- packages

Or with cargo

cargo install quvyta-packages

Requirements

  • Arch Linux

    Or a distribution built on it, with pacman.

  • sudo

    For anything that changes the system.

  • Rust 1.95 or later

    The installer brings it with rustup if you agree.