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They kind of live in a blind spot of my package manager(s). And this is how the idea for `blindspot` started! See it in action:\n\n[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/337585.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/337585)\n\n# Features\n* Install a package based on a browser download URL\n* Detect GitHub repos and install from GitHub release asset\n* Detect tar archives and common compression based on the filename and guide through extracting files\n* Update packages simultaneously\n* Revert a package to the previous version from before the update\n* Uses user local standard directories for data and configuration, no root privileges required\n* It's fast and has lots of emojis in the user interface\n\n# Installation\n## Github release\nDownload a [release](https://github.com/xermicus/blindspot/releases) and run the `init` command that can install itself:\n```bash\ncd ~/Downloads # assuming you downloaded it there\nchmod +x blindspot_x86_64\n./blindspot_x86_64 init\nrm ./blindspot_x86_64\n```\nThis automatically creates the config file and installs `blindspot` into the current users local bin dir.\n\n## Cargo\n```bash\ncargo install blindspot\nblindspot init --no-install\n```\n\n## MacOS Users\nOn a test device the `init` command failed to find the binary dir on MacOS. I set it manually `export BSPM_BIN_DIR=/Users/myuser/Applications/blindspot` and then added this to `$PATH`. Since I'm not used to MacOS I can't tell whether this is just a misconfigured device or generally the case with MacOS.\n\n# Usage\nThe usage should not be too far off from what you'd expect from a package manager. View the [asciinema](https://asciinema.org/a/337585) to get the basic idea.\n\n## Help\nUse the `--help` flag to learn about the various subcommands.\n\n## Configuration\n`blindspot` works out of the box if at least your `$HOME` env var is set. Use the following environment variables to overwrite default behaviour:\n\n|Name|Purpose|Default|\n|-|-|-|\n|**$BSPM_CONFIG**|Location of the config file|`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/blindspot/bspm.yaml` or `$HOME/.config/blindspot/bspm.yaml`|\n|**$BSPM_BIN_DIR**|Where application binaries get installed to|`$XDG_BIN_HOME/../bin` or `$XDG_DATA_HOME/../bin` or `$HOME/.local/bin`|\n|**$BSPM_DATA_DIR**|Where backup binaries for a rollbacks are kept|`$XDG_DATA_HOME/blindspot/` or `$HOME/.local/share/blindspot`|\n\n## Shell completion\nCompletions for the most popular shells are provided. Default is `bash`:\n```bash\nsource \u003c(blindspot completion)\n```\n\n# Disclaimer\nDo not run this software as `root`! There should be no reason to do so.\n\nThis tool is just a small hobby project and in no way trying to solve package management on linux as a whole.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fxermicus%2Fblindspot","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fxermicus%2Fblindspot","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fxermicus%2Fblindspot/lists"}