apt.sh

This is a user-friendly shell wrapper for pacman in msys2, you can use it just as using the real apt in a debian system.

Why not just use pacman

Because pacman sucks.

Usage

usage: apt.sh COMMAND [OPTION]... [ARG]...

COMMANDS:
    update [OPTION]                   update list of available packages
        --full-upgrade
    show PACKAGE...                   show package details
    download PACKAGE...               download packages
    search [OPTION] REGEX             search for packages
        --names-only
    list [OPTION] [REGEX]             list packages
        --auto-installed
        --installed
        --manual-installed
        --removable
        --upgradable
        --hold
    install [OPTION] PACKAGE...       install packages
        --mark-auto
    reinstall [OPTION] PACKAGE...     reinstall packages
        --mark-auto
    full-upgrade                      upgrade the system
    remove PACKAGE...                 remove packages
        --save-configurations
    autoremove [PACKAGE]...           automatically remove all unused packages
        --save-configurations
    autopurge [PACKAGE]...            an alias for autoremove
    depends [OPTION] PACKAGE          list packages that a package depends on
        --recurse
    rdepends [OPTION] PACKAGE         list packages that depend on a package
        --recurse
    clean                             remove all files from the cache
    autoclean                         remove old packages from the cache
    mark OPTION PACKAGE...            mark packages
        --auto
        --manual
        --hold
        --unhold
    -l PACKAGE...                     list files owned by specific packages
    -s FILE...                        search for packages that own specific files
    -c                                install the completion file
    -u                                upgrade this tool from github
    help                              show this help message

Most commands are similar to the real apt's commands, but:

• list accepts a regular expression argument instead of a glob pattern argument
• install and reinstall can also accept urls as arguments
• --mark-auto will mark packages as automatically installed in any cases
• remove and autoremove delete configurations by default
• mark is similar to apt-mark
• -l and -s are similar to dpkg -L and dpkg -S respectively

Note:

• mark --hold and mark --unhold work just like the apt-mark command which doesn't support glob pattern arguments.

Installation

curl -Lfo /usr/local/bin/apt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beavailable/apt.sh/main/apt.sh

Uninstallation

rm -f /usr/local/bin/apt /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/apt

Tips

After installing the completion file, in all cases that a package name is needed as an argument, you can simply type -<tab> to complete the current MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX for you.

For example, if you type apt install -<tab>, you'll get:

• apt install mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64- in UCRT64 environment
• apt install mingw-w64-clang-x86_64- in CLANG64 environment
• apt install - in MSYS environment (no changes)

And because of this, you need to type --<tab> to complete options in these cases.