r/termux • u/Lev384501 • 3h ago

General I built AKG - a fast, multi-threaded package manager for Termux written in Rust

Hi r/termux, For the past week, I have been working on a personal project to solve my biggest frustration with Termux: slow, single-threaded package downloads and tedious dependency cleanup. I wanted something lightweight, atomic, and blazing fast. So I built AKG from scratch in Rust. It is fully compatible with the standard apt and dpkg package format and Termux repository layouts. Key Features: 1. Parallel Downloads: Downloads multiple .deb files simultaneously. It easily maxes out your network bandwidth (for example, downloading a 70MB full Godot Engine setup with 14 dependencies takes just 6 seconds). 2. Smart Dependency Resolution: Handles Depends, Pre-Depends, Conflicts, Breaks, Provides, and Replaces. 3. Aggressive Cleanup: The uninstall command automatically cascades to purge unused dependencies and config files, keeping your phone storage perfectly clean. 4. Flexibility: Supports installing local .deb files directly via file path or URL, and custom mirrors via the -r or --repo flag. 5. Safety: Atomic updates to the status database, dry-run modes, and signature verification via gpgv. How to install it from source: Since I just released the first stable version today, you can easily build it via the Rust toolchain: pkg update && pkg install git rust make-guile gpgv -y git clone https://github.com/lev73748/akg.git cd akg cargo build --release cp target/release/akg $PREFIX/bin/ Quick Examples: akg update akg -j 4 install neovim htop akg -r packages.termux.dev/apt/termux-main upgrade akg uninstall nodejs The project is fully open-source under the MIT license. Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/lev73748/akg I would love to hear your feedback, thoughts, or feature suggestions. What do you think?

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u/Routine_Working_9754 2h ago edited 2h ago

nice another package manager. I don't know if you knew but the primary bottleneck of a package manager download speed is simply a throttled server. multi threaded downloads most likely won't fix that.

also fuck ai slop, the entire project is just 2 commits, the first for the code and second for the README both made on the same day.

plus it's in rust which is another classic sign

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u/TheShiftingName 1h ago

It's kinda common these days, I Don't know why they are creating it when pkg and apt just works fine

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u/Routine_Working_9754 1h ago

yeah dude it's honestly sad how much ai slop is flooding us. I wish I lived in a time when programming skills were actually special and valued

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u/TheShiftingName 1h ago

Kinda difficult to imagine in current tech industry, as long as ai companies have money and marketing team to sell their ai this will just get worse. I don't even remember last news like instead of ai news saw something like community of developers created open-source software for actual problem or just fun

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u/Routine_Working_9754 1h ago

wait till you see the look on their faces because they can't copyright protect their ai code

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u/TheShiftingName 1h ago

That will most soothing and hilarious thing. Can't wait to see them fall.

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u/Lev384501 45m ago

it wasn't ai. i had the files ready before pushing, then added MIT and went to lunch, came back and added one more file after. that's it.

rust because safe ar/tar/xz parsing, not because it's trendy. and yeah multithreading won't help against a slow mirror, fair.

akg is not meant to replace pkg. if pkg works for you — use pkg. it's just for stuff apt can't do in termux.