Table of contents

• Name
• Description
• Installation
  • Install stable from Github
  • Installation from Pival81 repository
• Usage
• Implemented Operations
• Related projects
• 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)
• apk by Alpine Linux
• tazpkg by SliTaz Linux
• swupd by Clear Linux

Installation

1. This script shouldn't be installed on an Arch-based system;
2. On FreeBSD and Alpine Linux, please install bash package first.

Install stable script from Github

You can download the stable script and make it executable

$ 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

On some system, /usr/local/bin is not in the search paths when the command is executed by sudo. You may want to use /usr/bin/pacman or /usr/bin/pacapt instead.

This stable script is generated 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.

Installation from Pival81 repository

@Pival81 creates specification to build packages on various Linux distributions (CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, RHEL, Ubuntu). The specification can be found under the contrib/ directory.

@Pival81 also builds packages which are ready to use on your machine. See the following link for details.

http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:Pival81&package=pacapt

Usage

Some basic command line options

• -h (--help): Print help message;
• -P: Print list of supported 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 Qk Ql Qm Qo Qp Qs Qu R Rn Rns Rs S Sc Scc Sccc Si Sii Sl Ss Su Suy Sw Sy U
      apk  ~     *     *     *     *  * *  *   *  * *  *   *    *  *   *  *  *  *   *  *  * *
     cave  *     *     *     *  *  *  * *  *   *  * *  *   *    x  *         *  *   *     * x
      dnf  ~  *  *     *  *  *  *  *  * *           *  *   *    *  *      *  *  *   *  *  * *
     dpkg  ~     *     *     *  *  *  * *  *   *  ~ *  *   *    *  *   *     *  *   *     * *
 homebrew  ~  *  *     *     *     *  * *         * *  *   *    *  *         *  *   *     *  
 macports     *        *     *        * *         ~ *  *   *       *         *  *   *     *  
    pkgng  *     *     *     *  *     * *         * *  *   *       *         *  *   *     *  
pkg_tools  ~     *     *     *  *     * *  *   *  ~ *  *   x       *      *  ~  *   *     x  
  portage  *  *  *     *     *        * *         * *  *   *    *  *         *  *   *     *  
sun_tools  *     *     *     *     *    *                                                   *
    swupd           *        *     *    *           *                        *  *   *     *  
   tazpkg  *     *     *     *          *           *  *   *                 *  *   *     * *
     xbps  *     *     *     *  *  *  * *  *   *  * *  *   *    *  *   *     *  *   *  *  * *
      yum  *  *  *     *  *  *  *  *  * *         * *  *   *    *  *   *     *  *   *     * *
   zypper  *  *  *     *  *  *  *  *  * *  *   *  * *  *   *    *  *   *  *  *  *   *  *  * *

Notes:

• *: Implemented;
• ~: Implemented. Some options may not supported/implemented;
• x: Operation is not supported by Operating system;
• The table is generated from source. Please don't update it manually.

Related projects

• batch-pacapt: An Arch's pacman-like package manager for Windows
• node-pacapt: A node.js wrapper of pacapt + batch-pacapt

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. CONTRIBUTORS

Many people have contributed to the project by sending pull requests and/or reporting on the ticket system. Here is an incomplete list of authors and contributors.

• 10sr (10sr)
• Alexander Dupuy (dupuy)
• Anh K. Huynh (icy)
• Alex Lyon (Arcterus)
• Carl X. Su (bcbcarl)
• Cuong Manh Le (Gnouc)
• Daniel YC Lin (dlintw)
• Danny George (dangets)
• Darshit Shah (darnir)
• Dmitry Kudriavtsev (dkudriavtsev)
• Eric Crosson (EricCrosson)
• Evan Relf (evanrelf)
• GijsTimmers (GijsTimmers)
• Hà-Dương Nguyễn (cmpitg)
• Huy Ngô (NgoHuy)
• James Pearson (xiongchiamiov)
• Janne Heß (dasJ)
• Jiawei Zhou (4679)
• Karol Blazewicz
• Kevin Brubeck (unhammer)
• Konrad Borowski (xfix)
• Kylie McClain (somasis)
• Valerio Pizzi (Pival81)
• Siôn Le Roux (sinisterstuf)
• Thiago Perrotta (thiagowfx)
• Vojtech Letal (letalvoj)