pacsea – Pacman and AUR utility

Pacsea is a TUI application for browsing and installing Arch and AUR packages. It includes an integrated Arch news and advisory feed and supports keyboard-first navigation.

Browse Arch news, security advisories, package updates, and AUR comments in a unified feed. Filter by source, search with history, bookmark important items, and track read/unread status. All content is cached for offline access and automatically updated in the background.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• All operations execute directly within the TUI with real-time output streaming, progress bars, and inline password prompts — no external terminals.
• Unified news feed combining Arch news, security advisories, package update notifications, and AUR package comments. Includes offline access with automatic caching, filtering by source or date, search with history, bookmarking, read/unread tracking, and background updates.
• Comprehensive security scanning workflow with multiple tools (ClamAV, Trivy, Semgrep, ShellCheck, VirusTotal, custom patterns, aur-sleuth) and detailed scan summaries.
• Toggle flexible fuzzy search mode to find packages even without exact names.
• Fast results across official repos and the AUR.
• Automatic background checks with detailed version comparison view.

Website: github.com/Firstp1ck/Pacsea
Support:
Developer: Firstpick
License: MIT License

Pacsea is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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