📘 Documentation | 🔮 PackageForge

A fast, modern, bloat-free distro-independent package manager that just works
Supports Static Binaries, AppImages, and other Portable formats on any *Unix-based distro

🪄 Quickstart

Tip

• Soar comes as a single-file, statically-linked executable with no dependencies that you can simply download & run.
• The install script does this & more automatically for you.

❯ cURL
curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkgforge/soar/main/install.sh" | sh

❯ wget
wget -qO- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkgforge/soar/main/install.sh" | sh

Note

• Please read & verify what's inside the script before running it
• The script is also available through https://soar.qaidvoid.dev/install.sh & https://soar.pkgforge.dev/install.sh
• Additionally, if you want to customize your installation, please read the docs @ https://soar.qaidvoid.dev/installation.html
• For, extra Guide & Information on infra backends & adding more repos: https://docs.pkgforge.dev
• Next, Check Configuration & Usage

🌟 Key Features

Feature	Description
Universal	Single binary, no dependencies, works on any Unix-like system with no superuser privileges.
Portable Formats	Install static static binaries, AppImages, and other self-contained archives with ease.
System Integration	Automatically adds desktop entries and system integration for a native feel.
Flexible Repository System	Use official, or custom repositories with simple metadata. No special build format is needed.
Security First	Enforces security through checksums and signing verification for package installations.
Fast Package Operations	Efficient package searching, installation, and management with minimal overhead.

📀 Default Hosts

Note: ✅ --> Enabled by Default

🏆 Tier	🤖 Host	📦 Repos	ℹ️ Status
Tier 1	aarch64-Linux	bincache✅, pkgcache✅, pkgforge-cargo✅, pkgforge-go✅, cargo-bins, appimage-github-io, appimagehub	Almost as many packages as x86_64-Linux, fully supported
Tier 1	x86_64-Linux	bincache✅, pkgcache✅, pkgforge-cargo✅, pkgforge-go✅, cargo-bins, ivan-hc-am, appimage-github-io, appimagehub	Primary target & most supported
Tier 2	loongarch64-Linux	pkgforge-cargo✅, pkgforge-go✅	Experimental & least supported
Tier 2	riscv64-Linux	bincache✅, pkgcache✅, pkgforge-cargo✅, pkgforge-go✅	Experimental, with gradual progress

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests. See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

💬 Contact

We have a growing community on discord to discuss not only Soar/Pkgforge but also other cool projects, feel free to join & hangout anytime.

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• Other Channels: https://docs.pkgforge.dev/contact/chat

🎀 Sponsors

• CICD run on free Github Runners, Container Registry & Package Storage on ghcr.io. These & much more are all generously provided by GitHub

• riscv64 CICD test machines are provided by 10x Engineer's Cloud-V

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

v1.82.0