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https://github.com/michaeldelago/aipm
Package Manager for AppImages
https://github.com/michaeldelago/aipm
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Package Manager for AppImages
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/michaeldelago/aipm
- Owner: michaeldelago
- Archived: true
- Created: 2020-07-17T19:42:15.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-08T11:10:51.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-02T00:26:09.594Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 151 KB
- Stars: 15
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
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- awesome-appimage - AIPM - A Package Manager for AppImages. (AppImage consumption tools / Package managers)
README
# AIPM - A Package Manager for AppImages
###### Scrapes [appimage.github.io/apps](https://appimage.github.io/apps), and creates a small download manager for these
### Usage
`aipm install appimage`
- install a package
`aipm uninstall appimage`
- uninstalls all versions of package
`aipm clean [appimage|all]`
- remove older versions of AppImages
`aipm search search_term`
- search for a package
`aipm import -f library.json`
- import a JSON in library format
`aipm export`
- export to `library.json` in the current working dir
`aipm update`
- Pulls the library from JSON feed
- requires `gh_login` and `gh_token` to be set in configuration
`aipm scrape`[Deprecated]
- generate the library manually
- requires `gh_login` and `gh_token` to be set in configuration
`aipm -h`
- shows you the same thing as above
### Installation
```
- clone repo
- install python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
- symlink aipm
ln -s /path/to/repo/aipm.py /home/USER/bin/aipm
- configure application (edit aipm-sample.yaml, and move it to /home/USER/.config/aipm.yaml)
- import library
aipm import -f /path/to/repo/library.json
OR
aipm update
```
### Notes
- Created when I started using Fedora Silverblue
- Immutable OS, favors applications that are installed via AppImage or Flatpak
- It's super cool and suprisingly usable, I'd recommend looking into it.
- I found shortcomings with a similar project, [spm](https://github.com/simoniz0r/spm)
- funnily enough, you can actually download spm (as an AppImage) with this tool.
- I just wanted a simple tool to install AppImages as needed
- I also wanted to write it
- I thought it would be cool to pull a list of AppImages from an "official" resource
- Before this project, I had no clue how webscraping worked. Turns out it's really easy :E
- I chose shelve as a db because it's lightweight, and has a great context manager
- I don't feel that a full sqlite3 db is necessary for a database so small/simple
### Shortcomings
- There is no rollback (though older versions aren't deleted when new ones are installed)
- If installation through `aipm` isn't working, it's always worth a google search for the project instead
- AppImages and Flatpaks are better and worse than eachother in their own ways.
### Known Bugs/ToDo
- There is sometimes an issue with KeyErrors on the shelve db, due to the way a json can be imported (i think?)
- This would potentially be solved by switching to sqlite3
- Workaround for this is to run an update command
- Implement "upgrade" command
- It should only install a package if there's a newer version
- ideally, if the release cycle is "continuous", it should always download the new version