https://github.com/vinc/pkg

A wrapper around package managers
https://github.com/vinc/pkg

apt homebrew package-manager pacman pkg

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A wrapper around package managers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vinc/pkg
• Owner: vinc
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-11-20T14:21:14.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-07T23:42:50.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T14:06:36.675Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: apt, homebrew, package-manager, pacman, pkg
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# pkg(8) - a wrapper around package managers

When you have MacOS on your work computer, Arch Linux on your home computer,

and Ubuntu on your home server, you might enjoy using `pkg`, a thin wrapper

around `brew`, `pacman`, and `apt` respectively, that will offer you a common

interface and save you some keystrokes.

## Installation

    $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vinc/pkg/master/pkg.sh

    $ sudo cp pkg.sh /usr/local/bin/pkg

    $ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/pkg

## Usage

### With system package managers

Let say you use Arch Linux on your local computer and Debian on a remote

server.

You would type `pacman -Ss foo` on the former to search a package named `foo` 

and `apt search foo` or `apt-cache search foo` on the latter.

And you would type `sudo pacman -S foo` to install it on Arch and

`sudo apt install foo` or `sudo apt-get install foo` on Debian.

With `pkg` you can search a package on both systems with:

    $ pkg search foo

And install it with:

    $ sudo pkg install foo

Or you could even type `pkg s foo` and `sudo pkg i foo` to save a few

keystrokes.

### With language package managers

You may use some language package managers, like `npm` or `pip`, in addition

to the system one. No worries, `pkg` go you covered:

    $ pkg --with npm install foo

With `pkg` you won't have to remember to type `npm uninstall foo` with `npm`

but `yarn remove foo` with `yarn`, or `sudo pacman -R foo` on Arch Linux but

`sudo apt remove foo` on Ubuntu. Just type the most obvious command and it

will get corrected or passed on.

License

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Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Vincent Ollivier. Released under MIT.