6. DEPENDENCY CATALOG

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

Required

uv        Python package manager (Astral)
cargo     Rust toolchain (via rustup)
fish      Fish shell >= 4.0
fisher    Fish plugin manager
starship  Cross-shell prompt
fzf       Fuzzy finder
zoxide    Smart cd with frecency
direnv    Per-directory environment loading
paru      AUR helper (Arch only; preferred)
yay       AUR helper (Arch only; fallback)

Integrations

wakatime   Developer time tracking
tailscale  Mesh VPN client

Recommended

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)

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
pipx      Python-based tools