pepv (Pedrito's Epic Pacman Viewer)

A GTK3 program designed to inspect your locally installed packages using the pacman package manager

Features

• Search using package name or/and description
• Filter by explicitly installed or dependencies
• Filter either by packages in the AUR or in specific repositories
• All of the filters above work together!
• Show how many packages are installed and shown
• View how many dependencies and files each package has
• View super detailed package info and its files

Featuresn't

• No uninstalling packages
• No installing packages
• No updating packages
• Only support for core, extra and multilib repositories
  • Also supports viewing AUR/locally built packages

Why?

• Because i want this program only to work as a viewer, everything regarding actually messing with your system should be in your own hands with you knowing what you are doing instead of me deciding what packages stay and go blindly

Installing

• AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pepv-git

Building

Requirements

• Meson (1.1 or higher)
• git

Instructions

• git clone this repository
• Open a terminal in the directory of the repo and run the next commands for a release build
• meson setup build -Dtracy_enable=false -Dbuildtype=release
• meson compile -C build
• meson install -C build --skip-subprojects To install locally using built binary, this also includes:
  • Desktop entry
  • Icons
  • README.md in doc
  • UI file
• pepv will also look for pepv.ui in other paths, list of paths is in order
  • ../data/pepv.ui Only in debug build for debug purposes
  • PREFIX "/" DATADIR "/pepv/pepv.ui" (PREFIX and DATADIR may be set by meson options for packaging purposes)
  • /usr/share/pepv/pepv.ui
  • /usr/local/share/pepv/pepv.ui
  • /app/share/pepv/pepv.ui
  • /app/share/runtime/share/pepv/pepv.ui
  • /run/host/user-share/pepv/pepv.ui
  • /run/host/share/pepv/pepv.ui

I dont know how to code but i want to use this program in a distro that doesnt have AUR.

• Follow the instructions above, you dont need to understand them
• If you are scared of basic computer usage then you can wait for someone to package this program in your distro and i may add it in this README or you can just open a new issue to ask for help