pkgstory

Your Arch Linux journey, told through pacman.log.

Install

From the AUR (recommended):

paru -S pkgstory

From source:

git clone https://github.com/Kolgrim33/pkgstory.git
cd pkgstory
pip install --break-system-packages rich
make install

What it does

Most Arch users have a pacman.log going back to the day they installed. pkgstory reads it and turns it into something worth reading — your full package history, narrated with personality.

Usage

pkgstory                    # your full arch story
pkgstory --pkg firefox      # full history of a single package
pkgstory --pkg mesa         # upgrade velocity for mesa
pkgstory /path/to/log       # use a custom log file
pkgstory --help             # show usage

Full story

╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ pkgstory your arch journey, told through pacman.log │ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ───────────── Chapter 1 — The Beginning ────────────── Your Arch journey began on June 26, 2026. That was 16 days ago. archinstall set up 554 packages automatically. The first things you chose to install after that:

1. firefox
2. git
3. paru
4. neovim ... ────────────── Chapter 2 — The Numbers ─────────────── Packages installed 1464 Packages removed 26 Packages upgraded 6 Days with activity 14 ───────────── Chapter 3 — Chaos and Calm ───────────── Your most chaotic day was June 26, 2026 — 957 package events in a single day. Your longest quiet streak: 3 days without touching pacman. couldn't stay away for long. ────────── Chapter 4 — The Frequent Flyers ─────────── Packages you've upgraded the most: hyprpaper █ 1x mesa █ 1x ────────────── Chapter 5 — Activity Map ────────────── Package events per day: Jun 26 ████████████████████ 957 Jun 27 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 6 Jul 03 ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 127 ... ───────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1496 total package events across 16 days. that's 93.5 events per day on average.

Package history

pkgstory --pkg mesa

╭───────────────────────╮ │ mesa package history │ ╰───────────────────────╯ Jun 26 2026 18:41 ↓ installed 24.1.0-1 (archinstall) Jul 09 2026 14:23 ↑ upgraded 24.1.0-1 → 24.2.0-1 2 total events first installed: June 26, 2026 upgraded 1 time over 13 days average time between upgrades: 13.0 days steady — upgrades every couple of weeks

Shows the full install/upgrade/remove/downgrade timeline, whether a package was installed by archinstall or manually, and upgrade velocity — how fast this package moves on a rolling release.

Fuzzy search

Mistyped a package name? pkgstory suggests the closest match:

pkgstory --pkg brave

No history found for 'brave' did you mean: pkgstory --pkg brave-bin

Why it exists

Every existing pacman log tool is either a GUI viewer or a raw stats counter. None of them tell you a story. pkgstory is the first terminal-native tool that narrates your Arch history with personality — and the only one that shows upgrade velocity per package.

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• rich — installed automatically via AUR, or pip install --break-system-packages rich
• /var/log/pacman.log — present on every Arch install by default

Also check out

• hyprkit — a companion CLI for managing Hyprland (paru -S hyprkit-git)

Roadmap

• --since 30d — story for the last N days only
• --search <term> — search across all package names
• Chapter 6 — biggest single update session
• Chapter 7 — package categories breakdown
• Weekly digest mode