crater-db

A database of known packages and package sources for Crater

Sources

A source can be defined as shown:

 ("xbps" (:COMMAND "xbps-query") ; Command to test whether xbps is available
         (:SEARCH "xbps-query -Rs") ; Command to search for packages
         (:LIST "xbps-query -s") ; Command to list installed packages
         (:INSTALL "sudo xbps-install -S") ; Command to install packages
         (:REMOVE "sudo xbps-remove -R") ; Command to remove packages
         (:UPDATE "sudo xbps-install -Su")) ; Command to update packages

An external source needs to be explicitly marked as "external":

 ("flatpak" (:COMMAND "flatpak")
            :EXTERNAL ; Marks the source as external
            (:SEARCH "flatpak search")
            (:LIST "flatpak list")
            (:INSTALL "sudo flatpak install")
            (:REMOVE "sudo flatpak uninstall")
            (:UPDATE "sudo flatpak update"))

PS: External sources are only used when explicitly mentioned against a package, while the regular sources are automatically used unless specified not to be used.

Configured Sources

The following platforms are directly supported along with their package managers:

• Adélie Linux (Coming soon)
• AlmaLinux (Coming soon)
• Alpine Linux (Coming soon)
• ALT Linux (Coming soon)
• Amazon Linux (Coming soon)
• pacman and paru for Arch Linux
• CentOS (Coming soon)
• apt for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and derivatives
• dnf for Fedora and derivatives
• KaOS (Coming soon)
• Homebrew and Cask for macOS
• Mageia (Coming soon)
• OpenMandriva (Coming soon)
• OpenSUSE (Coming soon)
• OpenWrt (Coming soon)
• Oracle Linux (Coming soon)
• PCLinuxOS (Coming soon)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Coming soon)
• Rocky Linux (Coming soon)
• Slackware (Coming soon)
• Solus (Coming soon)
• xbps for Void Linux

There are also the following platform-independent sources:

• Flatpak
• Snap

Packages

Entries in the file could look as shown:

(
    ;; "fd" is available on 'apt' as "fd-find", as "fd" on other known sources
    ("fd" ((:APT "fd-find")))
    ;; "steam" is available through 'flatpak' as "com.valvesoftware.Steam"
    ("steam" ((:FLATPAK "com.valvesoftware.Steam"))
             ("steam-powered")) ; also known as "steam-powered"
    ;; "android-tools" is available with different names on 'apt' and 'cask'
    ("android-tools" ((:APT "android-platform-system-core")
                      (:CASK "android-platform-tools")))
    ;; "pipewire" is a collection of different packages across 'apt', 'dnf', 'pacman', and 'xbps',
    ;; but not available on 'flatpak', 'snap', 'brew' and 'cask'
    ("pipewire" ((:APT "pipewire" "pipewire-pulse" "pipewire-alsa")
                 (:DNF "pipewire" "pipewire-alsa")
                 (:PACMAN "pipewire" "pipewire-pulse" "pipewire-alsa")
                 (:XBPS "pipewire" "alsa-pipewire" "libspa-bluetooth")
                 (:BREW) ; specifies that the package isn't available on 'brew'
                 (:CASK))) ; specifies that the package isn't available on 'cask'
    ("imaginary-package" nil ; does not have different names across sources
                         nil ; does not have other known names either
                         ("echo \"These are pre-scripts\"") ; needs pre-installation setup
                         ("echo \"These are post-scripts\"")) ; needs post-installation setup
)