aeris

Unbounded package management. A graphical package manager built with Rust and GPUI.

Aeris is a desktop GUI for searching, installing, updating, and removing packages. It drives each package manager as a command, described by a TOML manifest, so one interface fronts several of them at once.

soar is built in and describes itself, so Aeris always drives the soar that is actually installed. Other managers are added at runtime from the adapter registry, so supporting one is a matter of writing a manifest rather than changing Aeris.

• Search every enabled manager at once, ranked by how well each result answers
• Install, update, and remove packages
• Work per user or system wide, for a manager that offers both
• Add adapters from the registry, refreshed on an interval and offered as updates
• View installed packages and available updates
• Declarative manifest view: edit packages.toml, preview the diff, and apply
• Per package detail panel with source, build, and option fields
• Live progress, including answering a manager that stops to ask something

Each release ships a single self-contained executable built with onelf. It bundles its own libraries and runs on most Linux systems without installing anything.

Download aeris-x86_64-linux.onelf from the latest release, then:

chmod +x aeris-x86_64-linux.onelf
./aeris-x86_64-linux.onelf

Nightly builds are published on the rolling nightly tag.

Requires a Rust toolchain and the usual GPUI build dependencies (fontconfig, freetype, libxcb, libxkbcommon, wayland, and alsa headers).

cargo build --release
./target/release/aeris

A Nix flake is provided:

nix develop

An adapter is a TOML manifest naming the arguments for each operation and how to read what comes back, so a manager that already answers in JSON needs nothing more than a description. A manifest also says how the manager acts system wide, which settings it accepts, and whether an operation needs a terminal.

Manifests are read from, in order:

~/.local/share/aeris/adapters
/usr/local/share/aeris/adapters
./adapters

The Adapters page installs them from the registry and checks for newer ones. See pkgforge/aeris-registry for the published manifests and the schema.

Contributions are welcome. Please feel free to open issues or pull requests.

MIT