A package manager for installing linux programs that are self contained

How to install

curl -L https://github.com/Hejsil/dipm/releases/latest/download/dipm-x86_64-linux-musl > /tmp/dipm &&
    chmod +x /tmp/dipm &&
    /tmp/dipm install dipm &&
    rm /tmp/dipm

Why?

I love Arch linux. The main reason for this is the Arch User Repositiory (AUR). With the AUR, most tools a developer could ever want can be installed on the system with relative ease.

But life isn't always kind and sometimes you end up having to use Ubuntu. I'm sure the distro has many advantages, but the package repositiory is a fraction of the size.

I want to use zoxide, eza, fzf and other modern tools, but they either don't exist in the package repo or is very out of date.

Most of these tools end up creating distro independent binary releases so anyone can use them. They then guide their users to download and run install scripts like so:

curl <my-cool-pkg-install-script> | sh

But imagine a world where we had a package manager for installing these binaries. This is what dipm tries to be.

Why not X?

There are package managers that work on multiple distros like homebrew or nix. While these are great, they're quite complicated for what I want.

Also, writing a package manager is fun~ 😉