qpm — Quiet PacMan

Made for extreme minimalism.

qpm is a minimalist wrapper for Arch Linux’s pacman, built to streamline package management with quiet, clean output. No clutter, no noise — just packages.

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WARNING

THIS PROJECT WAS MADE TO LEARN GOLANG.

EXPECT BUGS

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Features

• 🛠 Install, remove, and update packages quietly
• 📜 Install/remove packages from .qpm files (space or newline format)
• 🤫 Minimal terminal output — no distractions
• 🔀 Use --yay to switch to yay for AUR support (<--- not recommended)
• 🖥 --out flag to show raw pacman/yay output (debugging)

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Requirement

• any shell (bash or zsh)
• golang / go

sudo pacman -S go bash

Installation

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Kasper100/qpm.git
mv qpm .qpm
cd .qpm
./install.sh
qpm -V

Usage

qpm [command] [packages]

Commands [

Command	Description
-S <pkgs>	Install packages
-Rns <pkgs>	Remove packages, config and etc
-R <pkgs>	Remove packages
-U	Update system
-?	Search for packages
-O	List all orphan packages
-Q	list all installed packages
-F	Install packages from a .qpm file
-RF	Remove packages from a .qpm file
-CF	Creates a .qpm from listed packages
-V	Show qpm version
-H	Show help message

Options

Option	Description
--yay	Use yay instead of pacman
--out	Show full command output

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.qpm Files

You can store packages in a simple .qpm text file using either of the following formats:

Space-separated

cmatrix cowsay fastfetch btop

Newline-separated

cmatrix
cowsay
fastfetch
btop

Then install them with:

qpm -F my-packages.qpm

Or remove them:

qpm -RF my-packages.qpm

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License

qpm is free software under the GNU General Public License. It respects your freedom and comes with the rights to use, study, share, and modify the code. This ensures the program stays free and open for everyone.