Amethyst is a fast, efficient and lightweight AUR helper and Pacman wrapper. Made for Crystal, compatible with any Arch-based Linux distribution
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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
8 Git error
9 makepkg error

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

TODO:

v3.3.0

  • Add clean function
  • Make flags global
  • Add pacdiff function
  • Squash any remaining bugs

v3.4.0

  • Implement some sort of spinner for longer operations
  • Allow editing of PKGBUILDs before install
  • Allow to choose provider of package
  • Highlight optdepends at the end of an install operation