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 [OPTIONS] [arguments]

COMMANDS:
    update [OPTION]               update list of available packages
        --full-upgrade
    show PACKAGES                 show package details
    download PACKAGES             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] PACKAGES     install packages
        --mark-auto
    reinstall [OPTION] PACKAGES   reinstall packages
        --mark-auto
    full-upgrade                  upgrade the system
    remove PACKAGES               remove packages
    autoremove [PACKAGES]         automatically remove all unused packages
    autopurge [PACKAGES]          an alias for autoremove
    clean                         remove all files from the cache
    autoclean                     remove old packages from the cache
    mark OPTION PACKAGES          mark packages
        --auto
        --manual
        --hold
        --unhold
    -l PACKAGES                   list files owned by specific packages
    -s FILES                      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
• mark is similar to apt-mark
• -l and -s are similar to dpkg -L and dpkg -S respectively

Note:

• --hold and --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.