Install quickie ;-)

Shortened URL (uses a proxy):

curl -sLk https://inducido.com/upkg/install | sh

This is shortened URL (uses a proxy) to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Inducido/package-manager-rosetta-stone/master/install.sh

UPKG : What is it?

upkg is a universal package manager for Linux (a wrapper for the command line)

• Goal: Same syntax for most frequent tasks on all flavors of Linux
• Name: upkg (or rosetta or better idea? --> I plan to ask for the name at install, why not?).

This is a package manager wrapper, or say a proxy: This is just a script, voluntarily kept simple to that you can check what it does in 1 minute.

Supports: dnf, yum, zypper, apt-get, pacman, emerge, tazpkg, xbps, pkg_add, brew (mostly untested, this is alpha version) So all flavors of: Arch, Red Hat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, SLES/openSUSE, Gentoo/calculate, Slitaz, Void linux, openBSD, MacOS

What will you get?

Same syntax for a package manager whatever the distribution:

Usage: upkg <command> [arguments]

where command is:

	install
		Install a package(s) by name

	remove
		Remove a package(s) by name

	search
		Search for package(s) by name

	update
		Update local catalog then Upgrade Packages ->
		Upgrades installed packages which have a newer version

	locate FILE
		Find the package which provides FILE

	info
		Print information about a package

	list
		List the files installed with a package

	version
		Gives the version number of a package(s) by name

It is like a new generic package manager, which will proxy command line to the underlying system package manager (rpm, yum, apt, pacman, you name it). Said differently: an "alias script" for package managers, a "proxy script" for package managers

Note: the final installed script is named upkg-XXX where XXX is your distro. You can check the file in this repo, or directly download it to avoid the installer

How To Install?

For Linux Users

• Use the single line installer command line below (Debian has wget, Red Hat has curl by default)
• cut and paste in a terminal (you will be asked for sudo):

Shortened URL(uses a proxy):

bash <(curl -sLk https://inducido.com/upkg/install)

or

curl -sLk https://inducido.com/upkg/install | sh

Longer (but directly to the repo):

wget --quiet --no-check-certificate  -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Inducido/package-manager-rosetta-stone/master/install.sh | bash
or
curl -sk https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Inducido/package-manager-rosetta-stone/master/install.sh | bash

For Windows Users

• Format your disk & install Linux
• proceed to the previous section

Prior to Installation (on some distributions)

Install curl on Void Linux:

	sudo xbps-install -Su
	sudo xbps-install -S curl

The Rosetta Stone

The famous Arch Linux's Pacman Rosetta gave me the idea for this tool. I wrote it several years later. Above all: that weird syntax for basic commands on Arch Linux (pacman) mainly motivated me

see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

rpm	yum	debian	arch
rpm -i foo.rpm		dpkg -i foo.deb	pacman -U foo.pkg.tar.xz
	yum install foo	apt-get install foo	pacman -S
rpm -e foo	yum remove foo	dpkg -P foo	pacman -R foo
rpm -qip foo.rpm		dpkg -I foo.deb	pacman -Qi -p foo.pkg.tar.xz
	yum info foo	apt-cache show foo	pacman -Si foo
rpm -qlp foo.rpm		dpkg -c foo.deb	pacman -Ql -p foo.pkg.tar.xz
rpm -ql foo		dpkg -L foo	pacman -Ql foo
rpm -qi foo		dpkg -p foo, dpkg -s foo	pacman -Qi foo
rpm -q --show-scripts foo		dpkg-query --control-list foo | xargs -n 1 dpkg-query --control-show foo
rpm -qa	yum list installed	dpkg-query -W, dpkg --list	pacman -Q
rpm -qf /bin/bash	yum whatprovides /bin/bash	dpkg -S /bin/bash	pacman -Qo /bin/bash
	yum search foo	apt-cache search foo	pacman -Ss foo
	yum list available	apt-cache dumpavail	pacman -Sl
rpm2cpio bash.rpm | cpio -diu		dpkg -x bash.deb $PWD	tar -xzf bash.pkg.tar.xz

Other sources:

• http://cupcakecarnival.net/2009/02/17/debian-equivalent-rpm-based-system-commands
• http://wiki.debian.org/RPM
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta_(简体中文)
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta

Test coverage

see https://github.com/Inducido/upkg-package-manager-rosetta-stone/blob/master/os_test_coverage.md