Dependencies

The primary requirements are Zsh, Python, and fzf or sk (skim), with optional additions for more colorful output, alternative json parsers, and faster performance.

Suggested Dependencies by Platform

AlpineArchDebian/UbuntuFedoraMacOSOpenSUSE

$ sudo apk add fzf pcre2-tools python3 zsh

$ sudo pacman -S --needed fzf python zsh

$ sudo apt --no-install-recommends install fzf python3{,-venv} wget zsh

$ sudo dnf --setopt=install_weak_deps=False install diffutils fzf python3 zsh

$ brew install fzf pcre2 python zsh

$ sudo zypper in curl diffutils fzf python3 zsh

All Dependencies

The big onesThe optional onesThe ones you already have anyway, probably

• Zsh
• Python
• fzf or sk (skim)

• uv -- for faster performance, leaner venvs, and more operational feedback
• highlight or gat or bat or rich-cli -- for pretty syntax highlighting; rich-cli adds fancy tables
• riff or diffr or delta or diff-so-fancy or colordiff -- for more pretty syntax highlighting
• jq or wheezy.template -- for faster JSON parsing
• jq or dasel -- for faster JSON writing
• zsh-defer -- for caching help content to eliminate a small delay in the first help message

Tip

Some of these can be installed after installing zpy, with zpy's pipz command:

% pipz install uv rich-cli wheezy.template

• du, mktemp, md5sum or md5, and nproc or sysctl -- provided by coreutils, busybox, toybox, BSD, or macOS
• diff -- provided by diffutils, uutils/diffutils, busybox, BSD, or macOS
• wget or curl -- provided by wget, curl, busybox, or macOS
• a pcre tool -- provided by pcregrep/pcre-tools, pcre2grep/pcre2-tools, ripgrep (>=14.0.0), ugrep, or Zsh with pcre enabled