Satellite 🛰️

Satellite is a fast, highly-concurrent, visually polished Terminal UI (TUI) wrapper for your system's global package managers. It aggregates packages from almost every major ecosystem into a single unified terminal dashboard.

If you are setting up a new machine, managing a sprawling dev environment, or just keeping your global tools up to date, Satellite makes it frictionless.

🚀 Features

• Universal Support: Seamlessly reads and executes updates for winget, npm, pnpm, pip, uv, cargo, choco, scoop, gem, dotnet, brew, apt, and pacman.
• Blazing Fast Concurrent Fetching: Uses multi-threading to scan all package managers concurrently the exact millisecond the app opens, preventing UI blocking.
• Cross-Platform: Automatically detects your OS and only loads the package managers relevant to your system (e.g. winget on Windows, apt on Linux).
• Two-Tier Dashboard:
  • Tier 1: See all supported ecosystems and exactly how many packages you have installed in each.
  • Tier 2: Dive into an ecosystem, view versions, and batch-select packages to manage.
• Batch Actions: Select multiple packages with the Spacebar and execute a bulk Update (u) or Delete (d) across them natively in your terminal.
• Single Binary: Written purely in Rust using ratatui for lightweight distribution.

🛠️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust (to compile from source).
• Windows Terminal (recommended for the best color rendering).

Installation & Usage

You can install Satellite directly from crates.io:

cargo install sat-cli

Once installed, simply launch the dashboard from anywhere in your terminal by typing:

sat

🎮 Controls

Global

• q: Quit application

Managers View (Home)

• j / k or Up / Down : Navigate the package manager list
• Enter : Enter a package manager to view its installed packages

Packages View

• j / k or Up / Down : Navigate the packages list
• Space : Toggle selection for batch operations
• u : Update selected packages
• d : Delete / Uninstall selected packages
• Esc or Backspace : Go back to the Managers View

📦 Supported Package Managers

Package Manager	Language / Ecosystem	Native Execution Strategy
Winget	Windows Native	winget list
Pip	Python	pip list --format=json
uv	Modern Python	uv tool list
npm	Node.js	npm list -g --json
pnpm	Modern Node.js	pnpm ls -g --json
Cargo	Rust	cargo install --list
Choco	Chocolatey	choco list -lo
Scoop	Windows Env	scoop list
Gem	Ruby	gem list --local
Dotnet	.NET Global Tools	dotnet tool list -g
Brew	macOS / Linux	brew list --versions
APT	Debian / Ubuntu	apt list --installed
Pacman	Arch Linux	pacman -Qe

(Note: Package manager binaries execute natively on Unix and gracefully fallback to cmd /C execution wrappers on Windows environments).

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! Feel free to open issues or submit PRs to add support for missing package managers or UI enhancements.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.