Arquanite / apt-temp

Install and manage temporary packages

What is apt-temp?

apt-temp is a simple tool that remembers packages that you have installed. It also provides effortless way of removing them. It's very useful when you need to install many build dependencies for a project which turns out to be unsatisfying and you end up with many unnecessary packages. What can you do?

• Browse command history and delete unwanted packages
• Live with them (you lose disk space)
• Use one easy command (apt-temp) to install and delete them

What apt-temp can do?

• It adds every installed (by apt-temp) package name to the list
• User can easily view all packages installed by apt-temp
• User can remove/purge all packages installed by apt-temp with one command
• User can easily test if package is installed/not installed/not purged
• It also recognizes what packages are new and what are old (when user type apt-temp install gcc xorg cmake, packages what are installed before eg. xorg won't be added to the list)
• User can clean system in one command (autoremove, autoclean, purge removed packages)
• User can approve packages installed by apt-temp (remove from list but not from system)

Help

apt-temp has two functions: zero-argument and multi-argument. Zero-argument function does not take arguments (eg. list). Multi-argument function can take one or more arguments (eg. install one or more packages). Every function that can take argument is multi-argument. That means you can install/remove/purge/approve/test many packages at once.

Usage: apt-temp <action> [package1] [package2]:

• help - show this page
• list - show list of installed temporary packages
• remove <package> - remove package(s)
• purge <package> - purge package(s)
• remove-all - remove all temporary packages
• purge-all - purge all temporary packages
• install <package> - install package(s)
• approve <package> - remove package(s) from the list
• test <package> - check state of package(s)
• clean - autoremove, autoclean and purge removed packages

How I can install apt-temp?

1. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/arquanite/apt-temp.git

2. cd into apt-temp folder.

3. make

4. sudo make install

5. You're done!

If you are using zsh and you don't have autocomplete for apt-temp add this lines to .zshrc:

autoload -U +X compinit && compinit
autoload -U +X bashcompinit && bashcompinit
source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/apt-temp

How I can uninstall apt-temp?

If you don't like apt-temp you can easily remove it by running sudo make uninstall from directory where you have cloned this repo.