Description

pacman-pie is a pythonic implementation of pyalpm.

pacman-pie aims to be a better-looking alternative of Arch Linux's pacman.

pacman-pie does not intend to be a drop-in replacement for pacman.

Prerequisites

• Python>=3.6
• Arch Linux
• pyalpm
• pipenv

Installation

1. Install pyalpm.

$ sudo pacman -S pyalpm

2. Instal pacman-pie as root.

$ sudo pip install pacman-pie

Usage

• Installing packages (note: concept only)

$ sudo ppacman install packages vim
::Preparation:
    Look for package 'vim'
        Package 'vim' exists.
    Resolve dependencies for package 'vim'
        Dependency resolution successful.

::Packages (2):
    vim         8.2.0814-3 (1.65 MiB)
    vim-runtime 8.2.0814-3 (6.26 MiB)

::Space Info:
    Download Size:   7.92 MiB
    Install Size:   32.98 MiB

::Your Input:
    Proceed? [Y/n]
    ⏎ y  # pretend to input (y)

::Package Retrieval:
    vim-runtime 8.2.0814-3
        Retrieved: 6.3 MiB
        Speed:  4.86 MiB/s
        Remaining:    100%
    vim 8.2.0814-3
        Retrieved: 1692.8 KiB
        Speed:     3.70 MiB/s
        Remaining:       100%

::Integrity Checks:
    Check keys in keyring
        Remaining: 100%
    Check package integrity
        Remaining: 100%
    Load package files
        Remaining: 100%
    Check file conflicts
        Remaining: 100%
    Check available disk space
        Remaining 100%

::Package Installation:
    Installing vim 8.2.0814-3
        Remaining: 100%
    Installing vim-runtime 8.2.0814-3
        Remaining: 100%

::Optional Dependencies:
    vim-runtime 8.2.0814-3
        python2: Python 2 language support
        python: Python 3 language support (installed)
        ruby: Ruby language support       (installed)
        lua: Lua language support         (installed)
        perl: Perl language support       (installed)
        tcl: Tcl language support
    vim 8.2.0814-3
        sh: Support for some tools and macros (installed)
        python: Demoserver example tool       (installed)
        gawk: Mve tools support               (installed)

::Pacman hooks:
    Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
    Updating icon theme caches...
    Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

::Ppacman hooks:
    (Nothing to run!)

• Removing packages

$ sudo ppacman remove packages vim

• Updating and upgrading

$ sudo ppacman