Package Forge

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Package Forge

About

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Package Forge is rethinking package management for Unix systems. We provide thousands of statically compiled binaries and portable packages in formats like AppImage and more, and a package manager.

Projects

Core

Project Description
soar A modern, lightweight, distro-independent package manager built in Rust
soarpkgs Package repository containing .SBUILD recipes and release metadata for portable, distro-independent packages
sbuilder Linting and build utilities for .SBUILD packages

Sub-Organizations

Organization Purpose
PkgForge-Dev Official developer repositories
PkgForge-Security Security tools and research

Get Involved

We welcome contributions of all kinds. Here's how you can help:

  • Star our repositories to show support
  • Try Soar and share your feedback
  • Contribute code, documentation, or package recipes
  • Report issues and suggest improvements

Community

Join the conversation on Discord:

PkgForge Discord — https://discord.gg/djJUs48Zbu

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  1. A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid]

    Rust 824 14

  2. Migrated to soar: https://github.com/pkgforge/soar

    Rust 31 2

  3. Utilities for linting and building SBUILD packages [maintainer=@QaidVoid]

    Rust 26 3

  4. Official Soar Packages Repository

    Shell 134 14

  5. 📦 The Largest Collection of Pre-Compiled Linux Static Binaries for Soar: The Modern, Bloat-Free Distro-Independent Package Manager

    Shell 31 4

  6. 📀 Pre-Built Portable Packages [AppBundle | AppImage | FlatImage | GameImage | RunImage & More] for Soar: The Modern, Bloat-Free Distro-Independent Package Manager

    Shell 47 5

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  • aeris Public

    Aeris - Unbounded package management

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  • pkgforge/devscripts's past year of commit activity

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    Official Soar Packages Repository

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  • soar Public

    A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid]

    pkgforge/soar's past year of commit activity

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  • squishy Public

    Convenient high level library for reading SquashFS and DwarFS files in Rust [maintainer=@QaidVoid]

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