Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM

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1085 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Shelly is a modern package manager for Arch Linux that interfaces directly with libalpm, offering both a GTK4 visual interface and a user-friendly CLI. It supports searching, installing, updating, and removing packages from official repos, the AUR, and optionally Flatpak.

Use cases

• manage arch linux packages with a gui
• pacman alternative with visual interface
• install and remove packages from the aur
• search and filter arch packages
• manage flatpak and native packages in one place
• update arch linux system packages

When to choose

• you want a friendlier, visual alternative to pacman on Arch or Arch-based distros like CachyOS or Garuda
• you need one tool to manage official repos, AUR, and Flatpak packages
• you want native libalpm performance rather than a shell wrapper

When to avoid

• you are not on Arch Linux or an Arch-based distribution
• you rely on advanced pacman features or scripting compatibility with pacman's exact CLI
• you need a package manager for Debian, Fedora, or other non-ALPM systems

Facets

application · maturity active

package-manager cli gui developer-tools operating-systems self-hosted cli arch-linux pacman libalpm aur flatpak gtk4 zig cachyos wayland command-line linux desktop

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