⚡ Hermes Package Manager

A beautiful TUI package manager for Arch Linux, written in Rust.

Features

• 🔍 Real-time package search (currently requiring 2 characters typed first)
• 📦 Install/remove packages with confirmation
• ✨ Beautiful terminal UI (or soon to be)
• ⚡ Fast and efficient using libalpm
• 🎯 Vim-style keybindings
• Built in Rust

Get keybind help using ? in Normal Mode in the program.

Downgrade packages with the downgrade package.

Installation

AUR

Use your favorite AUR helper to install!

paru hermes-pm
yay hermes-pm

From Source

# Download latest release
wget https://github.com/yourusername/hermes/releases/latest/download/hermes-x86_64-linux.tar.gz

# Extract and install
tar -xzf hermes-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
sudo mv hermes /usr/local/bin/

# Run
sudo hermes

Development

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/hermes.git
cd hermes

# Run tests
cargo test

# Build
cargo build --release

# Run locally
sudo ./target/release/hermes

Keybindings

• / - Search mode
• ↑/k - Move up
• ↓/j - Move down
• i - Install package
• r - Remove package
• ? - Help
• q - Quit

License

MIT