meta-package-manager
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What is Meta Package Manager?
mpm CLI, a wrapper around all package managersmpm is like yt-dlp, but for package
managers instead of videosmpm solves XKCD #1654 - Universal Install Script
mpm try to wrap all other package managers, it became another
pathological case of XKCD #927: StandardsOne CLI to rule them all:
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Meta Package Manager,apm,1
Meta Package Manager,apt,1
Meta Package Manager,apt-mint,1
Meta Package Manager,brew,1
Meta Package Manager,cargo,1
Meta Package Manager,cask,1
Meta Package Manager,choco,1
Meta Package Manager,composer,1
Meta Package Manager,dnf,1
Meta Package Manager,dnf5,1
Meta Package Manager,emerge,1
Meta Package Manager,eopkg,1
Meta Package Manager,flatpak,1
Meta Package Manager,fwupd,1
Meta Package Manager,gem,1
Meta Package Manager,mas,1
Meta Package Manager,npm,1
Meta Package Manager,opkg,1
Meta Package Manager,pacaur,1
Meta Package Manager,pacman,1
Meta Package Manager,paru,1
Meta Package Manager,pip,1
Meta Package Manager,pipx,1
Meta Package Manager,pkg,1
Meta Package Manager,scoop,1
Meta Package Manager,snap,1
Meta Package Manager,steamcmd,1
Meta Package Manager,uv,1
Meta Package Manager,vscode,1
Meta Package Manager,vscodium,1
Meta Package Manager,winget,1
Meta Package Manager,yarn,1
Meta Package Manager,yay,1
Meta Package Manager,yum,1
Meta Package Manager,zypper,1
| Package manager | Min. version | BSD1 | Linux2 | macOS | Unix3 | Windows | installed | outdated | search | install | upgrade | upgrade_all | remove | sync | cleanup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
apm ⚠️ | 1.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
apt | 1.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
apt-mint | 1.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
brew | 2.7.0 | 🐧 | 🍎 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
cargo | 1.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
cask | 2.7.0 | 🍎 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
choco | 2.0.0 | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
composer | 1.4.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
dnf | 4.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
dnf5 | 5.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
emerge | 3.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
eopkg | 3.2.0 | 🐧 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
flatpak | 1.2.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
fwupd | 1.9.5 | 🐧 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
gem | 2.5.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
mas | 1.8.7 | 🍎 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
npm | 4.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
opkg | 0.2.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
pacaur | 4.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
pacman | 5.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
paru | 1.9.3 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
pip | 10.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
pipx | 1.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
pkg | 1.11 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
scoop | 0.2.4 | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
snap | 2.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
steamcmd | None | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ||||||||
uv | 0.5.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
vscode | 1.60.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
vscodium | 1.60.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
winget | 1.7 | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
yarn | 1.20.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | ⨂ | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
yay | 11.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
yum | 4.0.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
zypper | 1.14.0 | 🅱️ | 🐧 | ⨂ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
[!NOTE] Missing manager If your favorite manager is missing or does not support an operation, you can influence its implementation: open a ticket to document its output or read the contribution guide and submit a pull request.
I can do that work for you if you purchase business support 🤝 or sponsor the project 🫶.
All installation methods are available in the documentation. Below are the most popular ones:
mpm is part of the official Homebrew default tap, so you can install it with:
$ brew install meta-package-manager
mpm is available in the main repository of Scoop, so you just need to:
> scoop install main/meta-package-manager
pipx is the cleanest way to install mpm from sources on any platform:
$ pipx install meta-package-manager
Standalone binaries of mpm's latest version are available as direct downloads for several platforms and architectures:
| Platform | x86_64 | arm64 |
|---|---|---|
| Linux2 | Download mpm-linux-x64.bin | |
| macOS | Download mpm-macos-x64.bin | Download mpm-macos-arm64.bin |
| Windows | Download mpm-windows-x64.exe |
List all packages installed on current system:
$ mpm installed
╭─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────╮
│ Package name │ ID │ Manager │ Installed version │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────┤
│ github │ github │ apm │ 0.36.9 │
│ update-package-dependencies │ update-package-dependencies │ apm │ 0.13.1 │
│ rust │ rust │ brew │ 1.55.0 │
│ x264 │ x264 │ brew │ r3060 │
│ atom │ atom │ cask │ 1.58.0 │
│ visual-studio-code │ visual-studio-code │ cask │ 1.52.0 │
│ nokogiri │ nokogiri │ gem │ x86_64-darwin │
│ rake │ rake │ gem │ 13.0.3 │
│ iMovie │ 408981434 │ mas │ 10.2.5 │
│ Telegram │ 747648890 │ mas │ 8.1 │
│ npm │ npm │ npm │ 7.24.0 │
│ raven │ raven │ npm │ 2.6.4 │
│ jupyterlab │ jupyterlab │ pip │ 3.1.14 │
│ Sphinx │ Sphinx │ pip │ 4.2.0 │
│ ms-python.python │ ms-python.python │ vscode │ 2021.10.1317843341 │
│ ms-toolsai.jupyter │ ms-toolsai.jupyter │ vscode │ 2021.9.1001312534 │
╰─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────╯
16 packages total (brew: 2, pip: 2, apm: 2, gem: 2, cask: 2, mas: 2, vscode: 2, npm: 2, composer: 0).
List all packages installed for which an upgrade is available:
$ mpm outdated
╭──────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────┬────────────────╮
│ Package name │ ID │ Manager │ Installed version │ Latest version │
├──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────┤
│ curl │ curl │ brew │ 7.79.1 │ 7.79.1_1 │
│ git │ git │ brew │ 2.33.0 │ 2.33.0_1 │
│ openssl@1.1 │ openssl@1.1 │ brew │ 1.1.1l │ 1.1.1l_1 │
│ rake │ rake │ gem │ 13.0.3 │ 13.0.6 │
│ Telegram │ 747648890 │ mas │ 8.1 │ 8.1.3 │
│ npm │ npm@8.0.0 │ npm │ 7.24.0 │ 8.0.0 │
│ pip │ pip │ pip │ 21.2.4 │ 21.3 │
│ regex │ regex │ pip │ 2021.9.30 │ 2021.10.8 │
╰──────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────╯
8 packages total (brew: 3, pip: 2, gem: 1, mas: 1, npm: 1, apm: 0, cask: 0, composer: 0).
If you wonder why your package manager doesn't seems to be identified, you can list all those recognized by mpm with:
$ mpm --all-managers managers
╭────────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────╮
│ Manager ID │ Name │ Supported │ CLI │ Executable │ Version │
├────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼────────────┼───────────┤
│ apm │ Atom's apm │ ✓ │ ✘ apm not found │ │ │
│ apt │ APT │ ✘ Linux only │ ✓ /usr/bin/apt │ ✓ │ ✘ │
│ apt-mint │ Linux Mint's apt │ ✘ Linux only │ ✓ /usr/bin/apt │ ✓ │ ✘ │
│ brew │ Homebrew Formulae │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/brew │ ✓ │ ✓ 3.6.3 │
│ cargo │ Rust's cargo │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/cargo │ ✓ │ ✓ 1.64.0 │
│ cask │ Homebrew Cask │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/brew │ ✓ │ ✓ 3.6.3 │
│ choco │ Chocolatey │ ✘ Windows only │ ✘ choco not found │ │ │
│ composer │ PHP's Composer │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/composer │ ✓ │ ✓ 2.4.2 │
│ dnf │ DNF │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ dnf not found │ │ │
│ emerge │ Emerge │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ emerge not found │ │ │
│ flatpak │ Flatpak │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ flatpak not found │ │ │
│ gem │ Ruby Gems │ ✓ │ ✓ /usr/bin/gem │ ✓ │ ✓ 3.0.3.1 │
│ mas │ Mac AppStore │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/mas │ ✓ │ ✓ 1.8.6 │
│ npm │ Node's npm │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/npm │ ✓ │ ✓ 8.19.2 │
│ opkg │ OPKG │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ opkg not found │ │ │
│ pacman │ Pacman │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ pacman not found │ │ │
│ paru │ Paru │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ paru not found │ │ │
│ pip │ Pip │ ✓ │ ✓ ~/.pyenv/shims/python3 │ ✓ │ ✓ 22.2.2 │
│ pipx │ Pipx │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/pipx │ ✓ │ ✓ 1.1.0 │
│ scoop │ Scoop │ ✘ Windows only │ ✘ scoop not found │ │ │
│ snap │ Snap │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ snap not found │ │ │
│ steamcmd │ Valve Steam │ ✓ │ ✘ steamcmd not found │ │ │
│ vscode │ Visual Studio Code │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/code │ ✓ │ ✓ 1.71.2 │
│ yarn │ Node's yarn │ ✓ │ ✓ /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn │ ✓ │ ✓ 1.22.19 │
│ yay │ Yay │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ yay not found │ │ │
│ yum │ YUM │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ yum not found │ │ │
│ zypper │ Zypper │ ✘ Linux only │ ✘ zypper not found │ │ │
╰────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────╯
If your favorite manager is not supported yet, you can help! See the contribution guide.
Other subcommands and options are documented in:
mpm powerBSD: FreeBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS. ↩
Linux: ALT Linux, Amazon Linux, Android, Arch Linux, Buildroot, CentOS, CloudLinux OS, Debian, Exherbo Linux, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Guix System, IBM PowerKVM, KVM for IBM z Systems, Linux Mint, Mageia, Mandriva Linux, openSUSE, Oracle Linux, Parallels, Pidora, Raspbian, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Scientific Linux, Slackware, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Tuxedo OS, Ubuntu, Unknown Linux, Windows Subsystem for Linux v1, Windows Subsystem for Linux v2, XenServer. ↩ ↩2
Unix: Cygwin, GNU/Hurd, IBM AIX, Solaris. ↩
FAQs
🎁 wraps all package managers with a unifying CLI
We found that meta-package-manager demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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