Chatr

A package manager CLI for downloading, installing, and managing binary packages.

Installation

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/teamcutter/chatr/main/install.sh | sh

Add the chatr bin directory to your PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/.chatr/bin:$PATH"

Add this line to your shell configuration file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.) to make it permanent.

Build from Source

Prerequisites

• Go 1.25 or later

Build

mkdir -p ~/.chatr/bin && go build -o ~/.chatr/bin/chatr ./cmd/chatr

Usage

Install a package

~/ chatr install hello
Downloading hello 100% |█████████████████████████████████████████████| (53/53 kB, 540 kB/s)

✓ hello@2.12.2
  cache: /Users/user/.chatr/cache/hello/2.12.2
  path: /Users/user/.chatr/packages/hello/2.12.2

~/ hello
Hello, world!

Commands

install

Install one or more packages.

chatr install <name>...

Flag	Short	Default	Description
--version	-v	latest	Package version
--sha256			Expected SHA256 checksum

remove

Remove one or more installed packages.

chatr remove [name...]

Flag	Short	Default	Description
--version	-v	latest	Package version to remove
--all		false	Remove all installed packages

list

List all installed packages.

chatr list

search

Search for packages in the registry.

chatr search <query>

Flag	Short	Default	Description
--show	-s	50	Number of results to display

clear

Clear the packages cache.

chatr clear

version

Print the version of chatr.

chatr version

new

Update chatr to the newest version.

chatr new

License

Apache License 2.0