See every app on your Linux computer in one place. Keep them up to date, and remove the ones you don't need.
Linux software comes from many places: your distro's packages, Snap, Flatpak, downloaded archives,
AppImages and more. Depot puts all of it in one window, tells you in plain language how each app was
installed, and updates or removes it the right way, so you don't need to know which command to use.
Depot is made for people who are new to Linux, and it's fast: once it has run once, reading about
2,500 packages takes under 100 ms (the very first scan can take a few seconds), from a single native
program of about 2 MB.
What it does
Shows everything installed as Deb (apt), RPM (dnf), Pacman (including AUR builds),
Snap, Flatpak, AppImage or Manual (installed by hand), each with a badge that explains what it means.
Programs from the developer tools cargo, npm, pipx, Homebrew and Nix are listed
under Advanced, and removed with each tool's own uninstall command.
Gets the source right. Each app appears once, under the package it really came from, even
when an install script copied its launcher into place. An app installed more than one way (say
as a Deb and a Flatpak) gets one card that shows every copy, so you can keep just one.
Updates. Lists newer versions of your apps with their old and new version numbers. Every
update has a tick box, all ticked to start with: untick what you want to skip and install the
rest in one go. Libraries, drivers and runtimes are grouped into a single "System updates" entry.
Programs from cargo, npm and Homebrew get their updates there too.
Removes several apps at once. Press Select, tick the apps you don't need, and uninstall
them together, usually with one password prompt.
Removes apps safely. Before anything is removed, Depot shows exactly what will go with it.
Leftover packages that nothing needs any more are listed separately, and you can keep them.
Apps installed by hand are moved to the Trash, so you can undo. Depot never trashes your
personal folders, even if a link points into them.
Always says what's happening. A progress window says when it's waiting for your password,
when the password was accepted, when another app is busy installing, and exactly what worked
and what didn't at the end, with a Try again button.
Finds broken launchers: menu entries left behind after their program was removed.
Frees space from Flatpak. Flatpak apps share big "runtimes" that stay behind when the apps
that needed them are gone. Advanced → Runtimes & bases says how many no app uses any more and
how much space they take, and Clean up removes them. Runtimes you installed on purpose
(pinned) are left alone.
Works on small screens and with a screen reader. Every screen fits a 360 px wide phone
screen, and buttons, tick boxes and progress are named and announced for screen readers such as Orca.
Keeps the clutter out of the way. Libraries, command-line tools and runtimes live under
Advanced, so the main view shows only your apps.
Depot needs GTK 4.14 or newer and libadwaita 1.5 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Zorin OS 18, Linux Mint 22,
Debian 13, Fedora 40, Arch Linux, or anything newer. Debian-based systems are the most tested; Fedora
and Arch support is new, so please report anything that looks
wrong there. On Fedora, updating and removing system packages goes through PackageKit, which Fedora
includes.
Download it (Ubuntu, Zorin OS, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora)
Open the latest release and download
the file for your system:
.deb for Ubuntu 24.04, Zorin OS 18, Linux Mint 22, Debian 13 or newer
.rpm for Fedora 40 or newer
Double-click the file to install it with your Software app, or install it from a terminal in your
Downloads folder:
Then open Depot from your app menu. Updates to Depot itself come as a new download on the releases
page. To remove it, uninstall Depot from your Software app, or run sudo apt remove depot /
sudo dnf remove depot.
If you installed Depot from source before, run ./install.sh --uninstall in that folder first,
so your app menu doesn't show two copies.
Build it from source (Arch Linux, or anything else)
This takes about five minutes.
1. Install the build tools (asks for your password):
Updates page with Update and Update all (PackageKit, Snap, Flatpak)
Removal through PackageKit with progress and clean-up of unused dependencies
One card per app even when it's installed several ways
RPM (Fedora and dnf; openSUSE should work but is untested) and Pacman (including AUR packages)
Select several apps to uninstall, and tick which updates to install
A progress window for every change: password, waiting, success, partial success, failure
About window with licence, privacy and legal notices; AppStream metadata for software centres
AppImage (found with or without a launcher, removed to the Trash)
Clean up unused Flatpak runtimes on their own, not only after an uninstall
Screen-reader names for icon buttons, app cards and the sidebar; progress and results are announced
Every screen fits a 360 px wide phone screen
Every screen checked with the Orca screen reader (checklist)
Developer tools: pipx, cargo, npm, Homebrew, Nix (cargo and npm tested on a real system;
pipx, Homebrew and Nix so far only against sample output from those tools)
.deb and .rpm downloads on GitHub Releases
For developers
cargo test -p depot-core # the engine's tests; doesn't need GTK installed
cargo run --release # run the app
depot --help lists commands that work without opening a window, handy for bug reports:
--list-only prints everything installed as JSON, --updates prints available updates
(--updates --refresh asks the software sources for the latest list first), and
--simulate-remove NAME / --simulate-update show what PackageKit would do without changing anything.
--unused-runtimes prints the Flatpak runtimes Depot would offer to clean up, and --version
prints the version.
Path
What's there
crates/depot-core
Inventory engine with no GTK dependency: one backend per install type, launcher ownership, finding apps installed twice, update matching, removal planning, caching
src/packagekit.rs
Small async PackageKit client over D-Bus
src/updates.rs
Checking every source for updates and installing them
src/system.rs
Running package-manager commands (with pkexec when needed)
src/ui
GTK 4 / libadwaita interface
src/ui/operation.rs
The progress window every change runs in, from "waiting for your password" to the result
src/ui/select.rs
Selection mode: tick several apps and uninstall them together
src/ui/about.rs
Main menu, keyboard shortcuts, privacy, and the About window's legal notices
data/
Stylesheet, launcher, icon, AppStream metadata, third-party licence list
docs/
The beginner's guide, the privacy policy, the screen-reader checklist, screenshots and the logo
scripts/third-party.py
Regenerates data/third-party.txt after dependencies change
Performance comes from reading package databases directly (no dpkg-query per package), loading
all sources in parallel, and caching file-ownership lookups until the package database changes.
GPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE. Copyright, trademark and artwork notices are in
NOTICE.md, and the privacy policy is in docs/PRIVACY.md.
Depot comes with no warranty.
