Meta Package Manager, a CLI that solves Xkcd #1654

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

Tl;Dr: mpm implements a solution to XKCD #1654 (Universal Install Script). Now you can do: $ mpm --xkcd install <my_package> and let it figure out which package manager to use to install your package. The project is open-source: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kdeldycke&#x2F;meta-package-manager#readme This CLI has some other capabilities, like listing the duplicate packages on your system: $ mpm list --duplicates ╭────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────╮ │ Package ID │ Manager │ Installed version │ ├────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────┤ │ blah │ cargo │ 0.0.0 │ │ blah │ gem │ 0.0.2 │ │ blah │ npm │ 5.2.1 │ │ coverage │ pip │ 6.4.1 │ │ coverage │ pipx │ 6.4.1 │ │ six │ brew │ 1.16.0_2 │ │ six │ pip │ 1.16.0 │ ╰────────────┴─────────┴───────────────────╯ List outdated packages: $ mpm outdated ╭───────────┬─────────┬───────────────────┬────────────────╮ │ ID │ Manager │ Installed version │ Latest version │ ├───────────┼─────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────┤ │ curl │ brew │ 7.79.1 │ 7.79.1_1 │ │ git │ brew │ 2.33.0 │ 2.33.0_1 │ │ [email protected] │ npm │ 7.24.0 │ 8.0.0 │ │ pip │ pip │ 21.2.4 │ 21.3 │ │ regex │ pip │ 2021.9.30 │ 2021.10.8 │ ╰───────────┴─────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────╯ Or dump all installed packages to a file: $ mpm snapshot packages.toml Dumping packages from brew... Dumping packages from cask... Dumping packages from gem... Dumping packages from mas... Dumping packages from npm... Dumping packages from pip... 1109 packages total (npm: 659, brew: 229, pip: 115, gem: 49, cask: 48, mas: 9). To install it, either use: $ pipx install meta-package-manager $ pip install meta-package-manager $ python -m pip install meta-package-manager $ brew untap hasnep&#x2F;tap && brew install hasnep&#x2F;tap&#x2F;meta-package-manager $ paru -S meta-package-manager $ yay -S meta-package-manager Or if you are meta: $ mpm install meta-package-manager See install doc at: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kdeldycke.github.io&#x2F;meta-package-manager&#x2F;install.html

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