upkg: A Shell repository from sobh

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 http://bit.do/upkg | 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`

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