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@ivan-hc ivan-hc released this 14 Feb 11:00
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Hide installed apps

Do you have any installed applications that you would rather keep the version so much that you don't even want to list them in -f? Do you want to hide any installed applications from the reach of "AM"/"AppMan"?

This release brings with it two new options:

  • hide, to prevent your CLI from seeing, listing, updating and managing the selected apps
  • unhide, to reverse hide

In this video I will hide two system-wide installed apps and two locally installed apps

simplescreenrecorder-2025-02-14_09.14.17.mp4

This can also help if you have a lot of fixed version apps (in my case baobab-gtk3 and system-monitor-gtk3) and you want to limit updating them, calling github APIs unnecessarily.

There is already a lock option for this, yes, but if you don't need to list them, you can hide them now.

When you use the command

am hide $APP1 $APP2 $APP3

the remove script is renamed to remove.old, thus preventing the installed app from being identified as belonging to "AM"/"AppMan" and effectively making it a "system" or "independent" app.

You can however update it manually by running the related AM-updater script (if it exists) and remove it manually by running the remove.old script.

It has its uses, you may need to hide an application from view sometimes.


What's Changed

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Full Changelog: 9.4.3...9.4.4