mpm (Meta Package Manager)

A CLI wrapper to unify interaction with multiple package managers across various OSs/distributions.

The concept of mpm is to create a (meta) package manager syntax/wrapper for the numerous package managers that exist to simplify administration of them.

Usage


# Searching (Searches Available Packages)
$ mpm search <query>

# For example:
#  * If you were on Debian, this would execute: apt-cache search <query>
#  * If you were on OS X, this would execute:   brew search <query>

# Installing (base package manager)
$ mpm install <package name(s)...>

# Installing (exterior/additional package managers)
$ mpm /cask install PACKAGE [PACKAGE...]
$ mpm /gem  install GEM [GEM...]
$ mpm /npm  install PACKAGE [PACKAGE...]

# Uninstalling
$ mpm uninstall <package name(s)...>

# Listing (Lists Installed Packages)
$ mpm list

# Updating (Updates the Package Index)
$ mpm update

Supported Package Managers

Linux

Advanced Packaging Tool aka APT (i.e., apt-get, apt-cache, etc.)

OS X

Homebrew (i.e., brew)

Others

Suggestions? Open a GitHub issue tagged as a Feature Request.

Installation

For now:

$ git clone https://github.com/eriknomitch/mpm.git
$ cd mpm
$ bundle install
$ rake install