Please add categories. You already have many packages. And now there is no way to see, for example, games only

[ivan-hc]

have you tried to run the command am -q game?

You can also check the catalogue https://portable-linux-apps.github.io

[vitaly-zdanevich]

You can also check the catalogue https://portable-linux-apps.github.io

It just a single-level list

[ivan-hc]

it is still a work in progress

[vitaly-zdanevich]

Usually every package manager have categories.

Pip apt snap flatpack portage

From the top of my head.

[ivan-hc]

Normally it is enough to use am -q to search something using keywords, and the only category added until now is "appimages", right yesterday https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM/releases/tag/7.5

Now I'm waiting for @Samueru-sama to have an updated list, so I can create more pages for the website, at least.

Al depends on the list of available apps and keywords on it.

[Samueru-sama]

I don't want this feature in AM itself, maybe on the website.

Can you even search for app categories in pacman, dnf, apt, etc? I know in pacman I can search for a package name doing pacman -Ss package which is similar to what we have already in am of am -q package, but nothing close to categories.

And yesterday I was telling Ivan that wouldn't have bothered to add the am -q option, since am -l | grep package would have been enough for me.

[ivan-hc]

Categories have been added to https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/apps.html

• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/appimages.html
• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/audio.html
• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/game.html
• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/graphic.html
• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/internet.html
• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/office.html
• https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/video.html

The above pages are generated with the script https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM/blob/dev/tools/am2pla-site

In case you have other suggestions for categories to add or think that a keywerd is missing, let me know

This is the piece of function that care about categories that are not AppImage

KEYWORDS="audio game graphic internet office video"
for category in $KEYWORDS; do
if [ "$category" = audio ]; then
    grep -i "$category\|music\|midi\|mp3\|sound" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
elif [ "$category" = game ]; then
    grep -i "$category\|arcade\|steam\|wine\|strateg" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
elif [ "$category" = graphic ]; then
    grep -i "$category\|picture\|screensh\|gimp\|photo\|svg\|png\|autocad\|blender\|modeling" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
elif [ "$category" = internet ]; then
    grep -i "$category\|web browser\|browser web\|firefox\|chrome\|youtube\|torrent\|p2p\|chat\|whatsapp\|mastodon\|telegram\|skype" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
elif [ "$category" = office ]; then
    grep -i "$category\|document\|book\|pdf\|docx\|reader" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
elif [ "$category" = video ]; then
    grep -i "$category\|stream\|media player\|film\|movie\|netflix\|youtube" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
else
    grep -i "$category" ./"$arch"-apps >> "$arch-$category"
fi

about implementing categories in AM, as also @Samueru-sama said, this is not planned.

I hope you like this improvement to the online catalogue.

[vitaly-zdanevich]

Can you even search for app categories in pacman, dnf, apt, etc?

I can in Gentoo:

$ ls /var/db/repos/gentoo/games-strategy/
0ad          colobot-data  dopewars     freecol     hedgewars          ja2-stracciatella-data  liquidwar       metadata.xml  satellite-reign       spaz     war1gus      wesnoth
Manifest.gz  crimson       dunelegacy   freeorion   homm2-demo         julius                  maxr            naev          scorched3d            tornado  wargus       widelands
augustus     darwinia      endless-sky  freesynd    homm2-gold-gog     knights-demo            megaglest       openra        settlers-2-gold-data  ufoai    warmux       xbattleai
colobot      dominions2    freeciv      galaxyhack  ja2-stracciatella  lgeneral                megaglest-data  s25rttr       seven-kingdoms        uqm      warzone2100

and on the web https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/games-strategy

[ivan-hc]

again, you can use keywords in am -q

Anyway, I am working on ne categories to add to the web catalog. This will be a web-catalog only feature.