afzgit / pacmen

Pacman made Easier

About

PacmEn (Pacman made Easier) is an interactive, simple and user friendly pacman script.

Showcase

If you are having difficulty remembering pacman options (-Rs -S -Qs -Syyu etc), then this is for you. It does not aim to replace pacman, but it instead aims at providing easier to remember commands (similar to Debian’s apt).

PacmEn can be used by average and advance users alike and comes with strong defaults like:

• a pager whenever a package is search to make it easier to read descriptions (note: search in pager with ‘/’, back/next with ‘N’ / ‘n’ and quit with ‘q’)
• fuzzy finder to easily find packages and select it without typing the whole name.

Requirements

• pacman
• wget or curl (only for installation)
  • sudo pacman -S wget
  • sudo pacman -S curl
• fzf
  • sudo pacman -S fzf
• less
  • sudo pacman -S less
• yay or paru (default)
  • yay
  • paru

Installation

• Using wget

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AfzGit/pacmEn/main/pacmen
chmod a+x pacmen
sudo mv pacmen /usr/bin/

• Using curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AfzGit/pacmEn/main/pacmen --output pacmen
chmod a+x pacmen
sudo mv pacmen /usr/bin/

Usage

PacmEn can be used in many different ways

simply typing pacmen (pacman but with an ‘e’) will put you in prompt mode where you can select installing, removing, deleting packages etc with pacman

pacmen i or pacmen install will prompt the user to enter the package name, this name will be searched in the default repository and then installed. pacmen i firefox or pacmen install firefox will install ‘firefox’ but without the prompt.

Similarly other options like pacmen remove or pacmen remove firefox will give remove prompt or remove the specified package.

The supported options along with their pacman counter-parts are:

• AUR install [yay -S]
  • pacmen a/A/aur
• Clean unused [yay –sync –clean and yay –clean]
  • pacmen c/C/clean
• Install package [sudo pacman -S]
  • pacmen i/I/install
• Remove package [sudo pacman -Rs]
  • pacmen r/R/rem/remove
• Search packages [sudo pacman -Ss and yay -Ss]
  • pacmen s/S/search
• Tree dependency view [pactree]
  • pacmen t/T/tree
• Update system [sudo pacman -Syyu]
  • pacmen u/U/update
• View installed packages [sudo pacman -Qs]
  • pacmen v/V

Notes:

• Select your AUR helper at the top of the script using the AUR variable (is paru by default)
• I am not responsible for any damages you encounter using this script.