Pacseek - A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages

[moson]

Dear EOS community,

On Friday I started a little project mainly just to get my hands dirty with TUI programming.
Since then it evolved quite quickly and I now take the opportunity to shamelessly advertise it on this forum
Maybe it’s useful for someone

The program is called pacseek.
It is a small TUI application that can help you finding and installing/removing packages.
It supports the regular Arch repositories as well as the AUR.

If you want to play around with it, you can install pacseek from the AUR:

Have fun and let me know how things go ,
MO

[joekamprad]

so should we replace pcurses with it ?

[jonathon]

@moson

It supports the regular Arch repositories as well as the AUR.

Nice! But does functionality also extend to DDoS the AUR?

[moson]

Nope. What you are DDoSing is my own server where I run my own implementation of the AUR /rpc endpoint. (the data is slightly less up-to-date than the AUR one, it’s being refreshed every 5 minutes…)

So Arch is not being harmed with this

[Lemon]

Nice job moson, just tried it and it runs great!

[fbodymechanic]

@moson

Nope. What you are DDoSing is my own server

While that is a little disappointing we’re only taking our your server and not the whole AUR, I’m going to give it a spin. It looks interesting, and useful if I don’t want to log onto the website like I usually do to search. Thanks!

[moson]

@fbodymechanic

if I don’t want to log onto the website like I usually do to search.

Yeah. That was pretty much the intention. While the usual AUR helpers already have search capabilities, I thought, a little bit more interactivity can’t harm

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Update to 0.1.1 is out.
Changed the coloring a bit and package installation is now also done with the ENTER key rather than CTRL+Space.

[ringo]

is it also possible to add a .desktop ? pacseek.desktop you can easily find in your menu? (i am lazy)

[fbodymechanic]

Is it possible to get it to search the whole name? Say if I don’t know what I’m looking for specifically? I REALLY like the simplicity of this though. Great job for a 1.1 release

[moson]

I was just about going to add it

Just wondering which icon to use. Any suggestions? “terminal” ?

@fbodymechanic

Is it possible to get it to search the whole name?

It’s a “starts with” search basically. I guess you’d want “contains” instead ?
I pretty much did that because then I can utilize the “suggest” type /rpc call.
(Which is way less resource intensive then the “search” one)

I’ll think about it…
edit I’ll probably make that an option in the settings

[fbodymechanic]

I’m sure it’s more resource intensive. Either way - I like the layout/simplicity of it and how it’s setup. Great start!

[ringo]

a black pacman icon with with teeth?

[moson]

Sounds great.

I don’t have icon design skills at all though. Someone here who could help with this?

[ringo]

i am worse lol idea was like

haha

[jonathon]

Paging @SGS

[ringo]

yeah, just it fits closly to the avatar of moson

[ringo]

only some things on, standard it want to install packages with yay -Syu ? but other side is nice you can change it in setting

if as you want to find pdf , you only find pdf that starts with pdf there should be more pdf viewers

further is simple.

[moson]

@fbodymechanic

Is it possible to get it to search the whole name?

@ringo

you only find pdf that starts with pdf

Voila. New search option added.
Will be released in a couple of minutes

Full search will only work with 3 or more characters for the search term though (that’s a limitation of the /rpc API; makes sense though)

[manuel]

BTW, can you set the AUR RPC URL to https instead of http? Or is there a reason why you use http?

[moson]

@manuel

Or is there a reason why you use http?

Nope, besides that it’s faster and there is not really a reason to encrypt that traffic.
But I can set up that up as well.