pacstall VS mpm

I use some package managers to install my programs in Kubuntu, apt which is the distro's default, pacstall and [brew](https:// brew.sh).

You might take a look at pacstall: https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall

Looks like it's not a rolling release. It's a stable ubuntu with unstable packages (from the pacstall repo)

Check out https://pacstall.dev/

If you use Pacstall, you can run pacstall -I nala-deb

Lastly, deb-get + pacstall + bauh. All of these combined covers 99% of my software needs, much less need to find and install PPAs and .deb manually. Still not as convenient as AUR, but much better than it was before. Hopefully, eventually everything is on Flatpak, snap, or AppImage so I could just use Bauh for most apps, but for now, I'm glad that these tools exists.

I'm in the middle of writing a reference MPR helper (DUR changed branding) called mpm, and at current it supports searching, installing, and updating. You need makedeb installed, and then you just have to build mpm from the PKGBUILD on the MPR.

Then came along a side project: mpm. This installed packages directly from the AUR and Arch Linux repositories. There was an attempt at getting another thing going to convert dependencies between the two distros (which was needed), but it was a lot of effort, and I decided to put some effort into this instead.

I've also got a companion project that can automatically pull in and install packages from the AUR and Arch repositories using their respective PKGBUILDs.

You can find the project here. Again, it doesn't work with a ton of stuff, but there's a small list of packages that I know do work here: https://github.com/hwittenborn/mpm/blob/alpha/WORKING\_PACKAGES.md

Available on GitHub: https://github.com/hwittenborn/mpm