iwant

Install applications what I WANT.

About

iwant is a tool to install applications from provided manifest(.toml) using the supported package managers.

Installation

Install from source code:

$ cargo install --path .

Install from AUR:

$ paru -S iwant

Supported Package Managers

• pacman
• paru
• flatpak (name allowed only: flathub)
• cargo
• cargo-binstall
• npm

Because I'm an Arch Linux user, so the default manager is hard coded with pacman ;) .

Manifest

The manifest of iwant is a toml file. It has the following structure:

[-]
cargo = "src"

[category0]
itemA = { packages = [], manager = "", desc = "" }

[category1]
# Or only explicitly states the
# *name* (here is "itemB") and
# *desc* (here is "itemB description").
itemB = "itemB description"

# ...more categories

Global options

The [-] section is global options of iwant and it is optional. iwant will use default options when [-] isn't found.

Key	Possible Values	Default	Description
cargo	src, bin	src	Control the command used by manager cargo

Item

The item later would be translated into

	name	category	packages	manager	description
Default	--	--	item.name	pacman	""

When you don't state the keys explicitly, they would have default values as above.

Manager

Some managers have variants:

• cargo:

  Value	Description
  cargo	Executes the command specified by global key cargo
  cargo:src	Executes cargo install
  cargo:bin	Executes cargo binstall

  In addition, <owner>/<project> is treated as github url path for cargo. For example, iwant will translate the following item

  iwant = { packages = ["TD-Sky/iwant"], manager = "cargo", desc = "Install applications what I WANT" }

  into cargo install --git 'https://github.com/TD-Sky/iwant'.

  The command that installs from git isn't affected by the global key cargo.

Usage

Please iwant -h and then read the help.

You can also refer to my manifest.

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)