Etersoft EPM package manager README

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. EEPM will run urpmi on Mandriva, apt-get install on Ubuntu, yum install on Fedora. And it has a little intelligence, so EEPM will first try to install a package file via low level commands (rpm 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. EEPM will print out any real command it uses so you can learn from it.

Also EEPM has initial support for repository management: list, add, remove, update

Pay attention to the following useful commands:

• epmqf - query package(s) owning file
• epmqp - search in the list of installed packages

epmqf 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

Install on any system

Just run under root user:

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

How to add new distro support

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' has to print packages with awk substring in their names)

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

Please e-mail me: lav@etersoft.ru