Etersoft EPM package manager

Really, EPM is a wrapper for any package manager used in your operating system.

Run

$ epm --help

to see list of all supported commands.

The main goal of the project is to provide the same package management interface on all platforms.

You can use

# epmi NAME

or

# epm -i NAME

or

# epm install NAME

to install a package. It is just an alias for one command: install the package. EPM will run

on Mandriva,

apt install

on Ubuntu,

yum install

on Fedora, or

apt-get install

on ALT Linux.

And it has a little intelligence, so EPM will first try to install a package file via low level commands (

or

dpkg

) before using higher level commands (

yum

,

apt

).

Just try your comfort style for package management and carry your experience the same to any platform. EPM will print out the real command it uses so you can learn from it.

EPM has support for repository management: repo list, repo add, repo remove, update commands.

Also EPM contains

command to control system services in system independed manner.

Pay attention to the following useful commands:

• epmqf <command name>
  - query package(s) owning file
• epmqp <word>
  - search in the list of installed packages

can be helpful to get package name for any file or command in the system:

$ epmqf epmqf
Note: epmqf is placed as /usr/bin/epmqf
 $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/epmqf
eepm-1.1.0-alt2
Note: /usr/bin/epmqf is link to epm
Note: epm is placed as /usr/bin/epm
 $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/epm
eepm-1.1.0-alt2

Also you can use

to install the application from the official site.

For example, run

to install Microsoft Edge browser in your system.

Install on any system

Just run under root user:

# curl -sL https://eepm.ru/epm.sh | bash /dev/stdin ei

or using wget:

# wget -O- https://eepm.ru/epm.sh | bash /dev/stdin ei

or more long version:

# curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Etersoft/eepm/master/packed/epm.sh | bash /dev/stdin ei --auto

If you have no

or

wget

on your system, just download file

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Etersoft/eepm/master/packed/epm.sh

and run in the download directory via bash:

# bash epm.sh ei

In a common case you can install eepm package manually:

How to add new distro support

For developers only:

1. Fix detection with
   distro_info
2. Add distro support in
   set_pm_type
   function
3. Implement every command in epm-* files
4. Ensure that
   epm packages
   and
   epm --short packages
   works correctly (
   epm package 'awk'
   have to print packages with
   awk
   substring in their names)

Informational resources

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta

See detailed description in Russian at http://wiki.etersoft.ru/Epm

Please e-mail if you have any questions:

Simular projects

• https://github.com/leamas/lpf
• https://ihucos.github.io/zpkg/ - With zpkg you can install programs from other distributions into your system
• https://github.com/volitank/nala
• http://labix.org/smart