PackageFetch 🐧

PackageFetch is a fetch-like terminal utility for packages written on rust.
It gives you a fun and fast overview of your system's installed software.

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🔹 Supported Systems

• Arch Linux and Arch-based distros
• Debian, Ubuntu, and Debian-based distros
• Fedora and Fedora-based distros

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✨ Features

• Display total number of installed packages
• Show package breakdown by source, depending on the distro:
  • Arch / Arch-based: pacman, AUR, Flatpak
  • Debian / Ubuntu: apt, Flatpak
  • Fedora / Fedora-based: dnf, Flatpak
• Show up-to-date (fresh) vs outdated packages with source info
• List recently installed packages
• Display system info:
  • Linux distribution
  • Kernel version
  • Disk usage with percentage per mounted disk
• Fully terminal-based with minimal dependencies

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🚀 Get Started

Before you start, make sure you have Rust installed.
For Arch Linux users you need pacman-contrib to be installed.

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/BeanDx/PackageFetch.git
cd PackageFetch

2. Build the project

cargo build --release

This will produce the binary at:

target/release/package-fetch

3. Install globally

Copy the binary to a folder in your $PATH so you can run it anywhere:

sudo cp target/release/package-fetch /usr/local/bin/

Now you can just run:

package-fetch

4. Update

git pull

cargo build --release

sudo cp target/release/package-fetch /usr/local/bin/

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📝 Contribute

Have ideas or found bugs? Don’t hesitate to open issues or submit feature requests.
All feedback is welcome!

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🔗 Links

• GitHub Repository
• tui-rs
• crossterm