Alloy - An application installer for restriced macOS

Note: This is in experimental stage. Please report any bugs.

TOC

• What is Alloy
  • Features
• Installation
• Usage
  • Installing applications
    • Supported applications
  • Uninstalling applications
• TODO
• Contributing

What is Alloy

Alloy is an application installer for restricted macOS. It is a simple command line tool that installs applications on macOS.

Features

• 🥳 Run without root privileges
• 🥳 Install applications with a single command ( alloy_folk install <app-name> )
• 🥳 Support third-party applications (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Spotify etc.)

Installation

Requirements:

• Deno

To install Alloy:

deno run -A --unstable https://deno.land/x/alloy_folk@v1.1.0/install.ts

Tp update alloy:

alloy_folk update-self

To uninstall Alloy:

deno uninstall alloy_folk

Usage

Help

alloy_folk --help

alloy_folk -h

Installing applications

To install an application:

alloy_folk install <app-name>

For example:

alloy_folk install chrome

Supported applications

• Spotify
• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• NextDNS (Not yet)
• Keka
• Visual Studio Code (Not yet)
• Figma (Not yet)
• UTM (←NEW!!)
• Free Download Manager (←NEW!!)

Uninstalling applications

To uninstall an application:

alloy_folk uninstall <app-name>

For example:

alloy_folk uninstall chrome

Undmg

Undmg is a command line tool to extract DMG files.

alloy_folk undmg <dmg-file>

Bribe

Bribe is a command line tool to bypass the macOS Gatekeeper.

alloy_folk bribe <app-path>

TODO

• Update installed applications command
• Add more applications
• Add completion support

Contributing