fish-config/docs/wiki/6-dependency-catalog.md

6. DEPENDENCY CATALOG

Sections: Index | 1. Configuration Variables | 2. Path Setup | 3. Key Bindings | 4. Abbreviations | 5. Functions Reference | 6. Dependency Catalog | 7. Customization | 8. Fisher Plugins | 9. Installation | 10. Personalization | 11. Viewing This Manual

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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 AI session helpers
            (save_claude_session / save_antigravity_session) and 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.

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

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