xPackageManager

A package manager GUI for Arch Linux managing pacman, Flatpak and AppImage from one interface. Built with Rust and Slint.

No AUR support by design. XeroLinux ships Chaotic-AUR repo with pre-compiled AUR packages.

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Features

Packages

• Browse, search, and remove installed pacman packages
• Real-time search across sync databases
• Local .pkg.tar.zst install via file picker
• Dependency and reverse-dependency tree view
• Browse repos by repository

Flatpak

• Full Flathub catalogue browser with category filters
• App detail page: icon, screenshots, description, changelog, links
• Add-ons modal per app (install / remove)
• Installed Flatpaks tab with remove support

AppImage (optional, off by default)

• Catalog browse from configurable feed-JSON sources (default: AppImageHub)
• Install from catalog, direct .AppImage URL, or local file
• Desktop/menu integration with extracted icon
• Configurable install location; named source manager (popup)
• Install ↔ Remove toggle; Reinstall for apps without embedded update support

Updates

• Unified updates list (pacman + Flatpak)
• Separate update actions per backend
• Plasmoid/widget update detection

System Tray

• Persistent tray icon after window close
• Scheduled update checks with configurable interval
• Desktop notification with update count and "Update Now" action
• Badge overlay on tray icon showing pending update count
• Autostart support (tray-only daemon mode via --tray flag)

Home Dashboard

• System stats: CPU, RAM, disk, GPU, kernel, uptime
• Quick-action tiles
• Arch Linux RSS news feed

Terminal

• Stream-based live output with auto-scroll and correct progress bar rendering
• Conflict resolution dialog for pacman file conflicts and dep breaks
• Interactive prompt detection (provider selection, key import)
• SIGTERM cancellation support

Settings

Settings are stored in ~/.config/xpm/config.json for easy modification.

• Toggle Flatpak support, auto-update checks, parallel downloads, cache auto-clean
• Desktop notifications for available updates
• HoldPkg management (prevent accidental removal of pinned packages)
• Flatpak remote manager (add / remove Flatpak repositories)
• Mirror list update, keyring fix, initramfs rebuild, GRUB rebuild

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Architecture

xPackageManager/
├── crates/
│   ├── xpm-core/       # Shared types: Package, Operation, PackageSource trait
│   ├── xpm-alpm/       # Pacman backend via libalpm
│   ├── xpm-flatpak/    # Flatpak backend (list, install, remove, updates)
│   ├── xpm-service/    # Orchestration, progress tracking, state management
│   └── xpm-ui/
│       ├── src/main.rs # Rust logic, backend threads, UI message loop
│       └── ui/main.slint

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Install

XeroLinux (recommended):

sudo pacman -Syy xpm-gui

Other Arch-based distros :

• Dependencies :

sudo pacman -S rust cargo flatpak alpm curl fuse2

yay/paru -S cpr zsync2 appimageupdate-git

• Build & Install :

git clone https://github.com/xerolinux/xPackageManager
cd xPackageManager/packaging/ && makepkg -rsifcd

This will require you to manually do a git pull and rebuild with every update...

• To Update :

cd xPackageManager/ && git pull
cd packaging/ && makepkg -rsifcd

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Changelog

v0.6.1

• AppImage engine (inspired by AM): real update detection for GitHub-sourced apps via release-URL comparison (no embedded update info needed); "Check for Updates" + "Update All"; optional GitHub token to raise the API rate limit; arch-aware asset selection.
• Pagination: Prev/Next paging on Flatpak Browse and Repo Browse; debounced AppImage catalog search.
• Responsive UI: lower minimum window size and reactive layout so elements no longer clip on lower-resolution displays.
• Fixed appimageupdatetool crash/no-fallback during AppImage updates.

v0.6.0

• AppImage support (optional, off by default): catalog browse, install from catalog/URL/file, desktop integration with icons, configurable install location, named source manager, Install↔Remove + Reinstall.
• Disk-cached catalog feed for faster page loads; atomic manifest writes.

v0.5.4

• Cleaned up translations and optimized app more.
• Sync & Update card replaced with Clean Cache & Reload

v0.5.3

• App Info Button
• Search — Fixed search backend.
• Pkg Name Humanization removed was causing issues.

v0.5.1

• App Translations
• Settings — HoldPkg
• Settings — Cache Auto-Clean
• Settings — Desktop Notifications
• Settings — Flatpak Remote Manager

v0.4.0

• Flatpak detail view with add-ons modal (AppStream XML parsing)
• Dependency tree view
• Activity log
• vt100 progress output (superseded in v0.5.0)
• Config persistence via ~/.config/xpm/config.json

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License

GPL-3.0-or-later