pkgManager for FreeBSD

A modern package manager GUI for FreeBSD, written in Python with PySide6 and QML. It began life as a fork of OctoPkg, the Qt front end for pkg; that code now lives only in the git history on the master branch, and the current tree is a rewrite.

Status

Early and not ready for daily use. It installs, updates and removes packages, but it is nowhere near what it is meant to become, so please do not download it expecting a finished tool yet.

Design

• main.py starts the Qt application and loads the QML interface.
• A Qt-side backend controller runs the package source commands through QProcess and owns the list models exposed to QML.
• Package sources are pure Python with no Qt in them: each one describes its commands and parses the output. pkg is implemented today, with pip and the ports tree planned.

Running it

Needs FreeBSD with py312-pyside6 installed from pkg and Python 3.12. Create a venv with system site packages so PySide6 comes from the system, then run main.py from it.