Blazing fast pacman wrapper

pacboost pacboost-bin

Pacboost is a blazing fast pacman wrapper that saturates your bandwidth. It downloads packages from multiple mirrors simultaneously, pulling chunks of the same file in parallel. Think of it as pacman on steroids.

Built in Rust with a custom download engine. Your official packages are still verified with the same GPG keys pacman uses.

# installl script (fastest)
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/compiledkernel-idk/pacboost/master/install.sh | bash

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel rust
git clone https://github.com/compiledkernel-idk/pacboost.git
cd pacboost
cargo build --release
sudo install -Dm755 target/release/pacboost /usr/bin/pacboost

pacboost <target> — Search and install <target> (repos then AUR).

pacboost — Alias for pacboost -Syu.

pacboost -S <target> — Install a specific package.

pacboost -Syu — Full system upgrade (official repos + AUR).

pacboost -Syy — Force refresh all databases (sync repositories).

pacboost -R <target> — Remove a package.

pacboost -Rr <target> — Remove a package and its orphaned dependencies.

pacboost --benchmark — Test your mirror speeds.

pacboost --security-scan <file> — Scan a PKGBUILD for malware.

pacboost --check-cve — Check your system for known vulnerabilities.

pacboost --snapshots — List available system snapshots.

pacboost --rollback-to <id> — Restore to a previous snapshot.

Pacboost uses two levels of parallelism:

1. Chunk-level: For each package, it splits the download into segments and pulls them from different mirrors at the same time.

2. Package-level: All packages in your install queue download in parallel.

This means if you're installing 50 packages, all 50 start downloading immediately, each one racing across multiple mirrors. Your bandwidth gets saturated.

• Mirror Racing — Pulls file segments from multiple mirrors simultaneously
• AUR Support — Builds AUR packages with automatic dependency resolution
• Malware Scanner — Parses PKGBUILDs for suspicious code before you build
• CVE Auditing — Scans your installed packages for known vulnerabilities
• Snapshots — Automatically backs up your system before updates (btrfs)
• Flatpak/Snap/AppImage — Manage alternative package formats

• Drop-in replacement: Pacboost uses the same flags as pacman.

• Safety first: This is a frontend for libalpm. Your system stays 100% compatible with standard pacman. If something breaks, just use pacman directly.

• AUR packages: Pacboost automatically drops privileges when building AUR packages. Run it with sudo.

Pacboost is not an official Arch tool. If pacboost can't build a package, first check if makepkg can build it successfully. If makepkg fails, report the issue to the package maintainer. Otherwise, it's likely a pacboost issue and should be reported here.

GPL-3.0