A wrapper around package managers
MIT License
When you have MacOS on your work computer, Arch Linux on your home computer,
and Ubuntu on your home server, you might enjoy using pkg
, a thin wrapper
around brew
, pacman
, and apt
respectively, that will offer you a common
interface and save you some keystrokes.
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vinc/pkg/master/pkg.sh
$ sudo cp pkg.sh /usr/local/bin/pkg
$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/pkg
Let say you use Arch Linux on your local computer and Debian on a remote server.
You would type pacman -Ss foo
on the former to search a package named foo
and apt search foo
or apt-cache search foo
on the latter.
And you would type sudo pacman -S foo
to install it on Arch and
sudo apt install foo
or sudo apt-get install foo
on Debian.
With pkg
you can search a package on both systems with:
$ pkg search foo
And install it with:
$ sudo pkg install foo
Or you could even type pkg s foo
and sudo pkg i foo
to save a few
keystrokes.
You may use some language package managers, like npm
or pip
, in addition
to the system one. No worries, pkg
go you covered:
$ pkg --with npm install foo
With pkg
you won't have to remember to type npm uninstall foo
with npm
but yarn remove foo
with yarn
, or sudo pacman -R foo
on Arch Linux but
sudo apt remove foo
on Ubuntu. Just type the most obvious command and it
will get corrected or passed on.
Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Vincent Ollivier. Released under MIT.