Table of contents

• Name
• Description
• Installation
• Usage
• Implemented Operations
• Support
• Development
• License
• Authors

Name

pacapt - An Arch's pacman-like package manager for some Unices.

Description

An Arch's pacman-like package manager for some Unices. Actually this Bash script provides a wrapper for system's package manager. For example, on CentOS machines, you can install htop with command

$ pacapt -S htop

Instead of remembering various options/tools on different OSs, you only need a common way to manipulate packages. Not all options of the native package manager are ported; the tool only provides a very basic interface to search, install, remove packages, and/or update the system.

Arch's pacman is chosen, as pacman is quite smart when it divides all packages-related operations into three major groups: Synchronize, Query and Remove/Clean up. It has a clean man page, and it is the only tool needed to manipulate official packages on system. (Debian, for example, requires you to use apt-get, dpkg, and/or aptitude.)

The tool supports the following package managers:

• pacman by Arch Linux, ArchBang, Manjaro, etc.
• dpkg/apt-get by Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
• homebrew by Mac OS X
• macports by Mac OS X
• yum/rpm by Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.
• portage by Gentoo
• zypper by OpenSUSE
• pkgng by FreeBSD
• cave by Exherbo Linux
• pkg_tools by OpenBSD
• sun_tools by Solaris(SunOS)

Installation

1. This script shouldn't be installed on an Arch-based system.
2. On FreeBSD, please install bash package first
3. Use the stable script

$ sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/pacapt \
https://github.com/icy/pacapt/raw/ng/pacapt

$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/pacapt

$ sudo ln -sv /usr/local/bin/pacapt /usr/local/bin/pacman || true

This scrip is actually picked from the latest stable branch, which is v2.0 at the moment. If you want to compile a script from its components, please make sure you use a correct branch. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Usage

Some basic command line options

• -h (--help): Print help message;
• -P: Print list of suppoted operations;
• -V: Print script version

Some popular options of the original ArchLinux's pacman program are supported and listed in the table in the next section.

A short description can be found at

https://github.com/icy/pacapt/blob/ng/lib/help.txt.

Implemented operations

           Q Qc Qi Ql Qm Qo Qp Qs Qu R Rn Rns Rs S Sc Scc Sccc Si Sii Sl Ss Su Suy Sy U
     cave  y  .  y  y  .  y  y  y  y y  y   y  y y  y   y    y  y   .  .  y  y   y  y y
      dnf  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .   .  . y  .   .    .  .   .  .  .  .   .  . .
     dpkg  y  .  y  y  .  y  y  y  y y  y   y  y y  y   y    y  y   y  .  y  y   y  y y
 homebrew  y  y  y  y  .  y  .  y  y y  .   .  y y  y   y    y  y   .  .  y  y   y  y .
 macports  .  y  .  y  .  y  .  .  y y  .   .  y y  y   y    .  y   .  .  y  y   y  y .
    pkgng  y  .  y  y  .  y  y  .  y y  .   .  y y  y   y    .  y   .  .  y  y   y  y .
pkg_tools  y  .  y  y  .  y  y  .  y y  y   y  y y  y   y    .  y   .  y  y  y   y  y .
  portage  y  y  y  y  .  y  .  .  y y  .   .  y y  y   y    y  y   .  .  y  y   y  y .
sun_tools  y  .  y  y  .  y  .  y  . y  .   .  . .  .   .    .  .   .  .  .  .   .  . y
      yum  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  .  y y  .   .  y y  y   y    y  y   y  .  y  y   y  y y
   zypper  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y  y y  y   y  y y  y   y    y  y   y  y  y  y   y  y y

Support

Please use the ticket system at https://github.com/icy/pacapt/issues .

Development

Make sure you read some instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md.

A development script can be compiled from the source code.

$ git clone https://github.com/icy/pacapt.git
$ cd pacapt

# switch to development branch
$ git checkout ng

# compile the script
$ ./bin/compile.sh > pacapt.dev

# check if syntax is good
$ bash -n pacapt.dev

$ sudo install -m755 ./pacapt.dev /usr/local/bin/pacapt

Please read the sample Makefile for some details.

License

This work is released under the terms of Fair license (http://opensource.org/licenses/fair).

AUTHORS

• 10sr
• Alexander Dupuy
• Anh K. Huynh
• Arcterus
• Cuong Manh Le
• Daniel YC Lin
• Danny George
• Darshit Shah
• GijsTimmers
• Hà-Dương Nguyễn
• Huy Ngô
• James Pearson
• Janne Heß
• Karol Blazewicz
• Konrad Borowski
• Somasis
• Vojtech Letal