Amethyst
Amethyst is a fast, efficient and lightweight AUR helper and Pacman wrapper.
Made for Crystal, compatible with any Arch-based Linux distribution.
### Basic usage
| Action | FreeBSD pkg-style alias | Pacman-style flags |
|----------------------|-------------------------|--------------------|
| Install a package | ame ins/install | ame -S |
| Remove a package | ame rm/remove | ame -R/-Rs |
| Upgrade a package | ame upg/upgrade | ame -Syu |
| Search for a package | ame sea | ame -Ss |
### Exit codes overview
| Exit Code (i32) | Reason |
|-----------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 | Running ame as UID 0 / root |
| 2 | Failed adding package to database |
| 3 | Failed initialising database |
| 4 | Error creating cache and/or database paths |
| 5 | Could not find one or more required package dependencies |
| 6 | User cancelled package installation |
| 7 | Pacman error when installing package |
### How to build:
Tested on latest Cargo (1.60.0-nightly)
#### Debug/development builds
- `cargo build`
#### Optimised/release builds
- `cargo build --release`
#### Pkg-warner included
- `cargo build (--release) --all --features=pkg-warner`