vappman 0.5

A visual wrapper for appman

vappman

vappman presents a visual (curses) interface to appman.

• Install vappman using pipx install vappman, or however you do so.
• Prerequisites: install ivan-hc/AppMan: AppImage package manager to install, update (for real) and manage ALL of them locally thanks to "AM", the ever-growing AUR-inspired database listing (for now) 1900+ portable apps and programs for GNU/Linux. Manage your AppImages with the ease of APT and the power of PacMan. and all of its prerequisites.

NOTE: vappman covers many capabilities of appman:

• implicitly, (-f) files (or show installed), (-l) list available apps, and (-q) search the app list
• (-i) installing uninstalled apps
• (-r) removing installed apps
• (-b) backup / (-o) overwrite of installed apps
• (-a) about (i.e., more info) for all apps
• (-c) clean to remove unneeded files and directories
• (-u) update installed apps; and vappman uses "U" for update all installed apps

But it does NOT cover:

• (-d) download install script
• (-h) help or full help for appman
• (-H) home or set $HOME directory for apps
• (-t) template for custom install template
• (-v) version of appman
• --force-latest to get the most recent stable release AND all other options and unmentioned commands.

Usage

• Run vappman from the command line.
• It presents some keys available on the top line.
  • Use '?' to learn the navigation keys (e.g., you can use the mouse wheel, arrow keys, and many vi-like keys)
• Then vappman presents a list of installed apps, followed by available/uninstalled apps.
• Enter / to enter a "filter" for installed/uninstalled apps, if you wish.
  • If you enter plain old "words", then those words must match the beginning of words of the apps or descriptions (in order, but not contiguously).
  • Or you can enter an regular expression acceptable to python (e.g., \b means word boundary, etc.)
• Use i to install apps, and r to remove apps. When you install or remove an app, appman drops out of curses mode, runs the appman command so you can see the result, and then prompts your to hit ENTER to return to `vappman.

Example Screenshot

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NOTES: in this example:

• the filter is card so it shows apps with words starting with card.
• the current position is on glabels; thus if i is typed, appman install glabels is run.
• if the horizontal line (second line show) has no decorations, then you are looking all the filtered apps; otherwise, the decoration suggests where you are in the partial view of the filtered apps.