agetpkg

Introduction

agetpkg is a command line tool used to quickly list/get/install packages stored on the Arch Linux Archive.

agetpkg means Archive Get Package.

Usage

Download a previous version of ferm package

agetpkg ferm

Download xterm version 296

agetpkg ^xterm 296
# or
agetpkg -g ^xterm 296

List all zsh versions

agetpkg -l zsh$

Install all gvfs packages in version 1.26.0 release 3

agetpkg -i gvfs 1.26.0 3

Download all pwgen packages

agetpkg -g -a pwgen

List only i686 packages of nftables

agetpkg -l -A i686 -- nftables

Force update of the index before listing packages matching i3

agetpkg -u -l i3-wm

Use another archive url

agetpkg --url http://archlinux.arkena.net/archive/packages/.all/ -l bash$

or

export ARCHIVE_URL=http://archlinux.arkena.net/archive/packages/.all/
agetpkg -l bash$

Run agetpkg in debug mode

agetpkg --debug -l coreutils

Display current version

agetpkg --version

Installation

To install the current released version of agetpkg, run:

pacman -S agetpkg

To install the git development version, run:

makepkg -i

Dependencies

• Python 3.x
• PyXDG

Sources

agetpkg sources are available on github.

License

agetpkg is licensied under the term of GPL v2.

AUTHOR

agetpkg was started by Sébastien Luttringer in September 2015.