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https://github.com/fuzzypixelz/tarman

A command-line tool to manage random tarballs from the internet.
https://github.com/fuzzypixelz/tarman

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A command-line tool to manage random tarballs from the internet.

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# Tarman

## What's in a name?

> **Tar**ball **man**ager. I know .. very creative :^)

And no, it's not a Living Dead reference. I didn't even know the franchise existed before typing "Tarman" into my search engine.

## Huh?

A command-line tool to manage random tarballs from the internet.
This implies a convenient way to install, uninstall and update such software.

## Yet another package manager?

The purpose of `Tarman` is to automatically manage software that lives behind a URL somewhere on the internet.

You should not need to write a package description. This is because we're aiming for the kind of self-contained binaries you would find on GitHub Releases for example.

## Goals

- Ease of use
- Minimal footprint
- Linux, macOS, and Windows support
- Blazing speed™
- Security

## Nice-To-Have's

- Scraping project pages for links (Github, SourceForge, etc)
- Repository of popular software with well-known locations
- GUI client

## Non-Goals

- Dependency management
- Building from source