6. DEPENDENCY CATALOG

fish-deps manages these tools. Run fish-deps to check status, or fish-deps install to install missing ones.

Required

fish      Fish shell >= 4.0
fzf       Fuzzy finder
zoxide    Smart cd with frecency

Integrations

wakatime   Developer time tracking
tailscale  Mesh VPN client

Recommended

cargo       Rust toolchain (via rustup); used by fish-deps to install
            Rust-based tools and to build fish from source. All paths
            are gated on type -q cargo and degrade gracefully.
starship    Cross-shell prompt; loaded via type -q starship guard.
            Without it the Catppuccin nim-style fallback prompt activates.
uv          Python package and project manager (Astral); used by the
            fish-from-source build path in fish-deps. All consumers
            degrade gracefully without it.
direnv      Per-directory environment loading; integration is fully
            guarded with type -q direnv. Without it the direnv hook
            is simply not loaded and auto-venv activates normally.
paru        AUR helper (Arch only; preferred); guarded throughout —
            non-Arch systems silently skip AUR-specific paths.
yay         AUR helper (Arch only; fallback to paru); same guards apply.
eza         Modern ls replacement
lsd         ls replacement (fallback to eza)
bat         Syntax-highlighted cat
btop        Modern resource monitor
dust        Disk usage tree (Rust)
duf         Disk usage/free overview
prettyping  Colorized ping wrapper
ov          Modern pager (replaces less)
ripgrep     Fast line search
lazygit     Terminal git UI
lazydocker  Terminal docker UI
trash       Safe delete (trash-cli)
kitty       GPU-accelerated terminal (primary)
wezterm     GPU-accelerated terminal (alternative)
python3     Standalone interpreter — used by the paru/yay log cleaner.
            Note: uv does not provide python3 on PATH, and Arch's base
            does not include it, so it is listed separately. All
            consumers degrade gracefully without it.
yt-dlp      Video/media downloader; backs the yt-dlp wrapper function.
            Optional — the wrapper falls back to the system yt-dlp and
            the rest of the config works without it.

Install Methods

The install priority for each tool:

cargo     Rust tools (eza, lsd, bat, dust, ov, ripgrep, trashy, zoxide,
          starship) — always gets the latest crate version
system PM paru / apt / brew / dnf / etc. — for tools without a crate
git clone fzf — installed from GitHub to ~/.fzf/
curl      starship installer, fisher bootstrap, uv installer