i figured there should maybe be a list made for known but yet unimplemented PM's.
logically, i've omitted pm's that are unmaintained.
if you are working on implementing one of these, let me know and i'll put your username next to the respective PM.

below are all the linux's i know of, and are still maintained:

• Sorcery (from Source Mage) - @foxsouns Implemented.
• lunar (from Lunar Linux) - @foxsouns Implemented
• tce (from Tiny Core Linux)
• Tazpkg (from SliTaz GNU/Linux)
• pkgutils (from CRUX Linux) - @foxsouns Implemented.
• qi (from Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre)
• swupd (from Clear Linux OS)
• Compile (from GoboLinux)
• Upkg (from paldo GNU/Linux)
• eopkg (from Solus)
• opkg (used by OpenWRT, OpenEmbedded, Onion.io stuff, KOAN)
• Entropy (Sabayon Linux)
• netpkg (Zenwalk)
• openpkg (aims to work on any unix, similar to guix)
• puppy package manager (puppy linux: may or may not still be used?)
• pkgsrc (a lot, including non-linux's. see this)
• apt-rpm (used rarely, needs investigation, might work under normal apt)
• 0install (seems like a sort of .appimage distributing thing? claims to work on top of other pms, like guix.)

bsd's

• freebsd ports: pkg (from FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, GhostBSD) @swindlesmccoop Implimented.
• openbsd ports: pkg (openbsd) @swindlesmccoop Implimented.
• pkgsrc (NetBSD & others)
• openpkg (see linux)

illumos'

• IPS (used on multiple illumos forks, including OmniOS and OpenIndiana)
• pkgsrc (on at least OpenIndiana, SmartOS)
• apt/IPS (used by DilOS, seems to meld IPS into apt and update apt? needs investigation to see if it's compatible with our already used apt)
• zap (used by Tribblix)
• opencsw
• openpkg

mac

• fink (seems to be apt?)
• pkgsrc (same as the one used above)

other unixs

• pkgutils (Redox)
• pkgin (MINIX)

others that seem likely candidates to work:

• ToaruOS

if anybody else knows of a PM i've missed (and @willeccles: if you have an objection against any of these), please let me know, and i'll update the list.
this wikipedia entry on unix-like os' might be useful.
this wikipedia entry on package managers, generally is probably moreso

This is not really user-freedom respecting decision, care to provide a context?

I'm not familiar with guix, so this may be appropriate for guix, but prt-get seems like it would require root.

as the title says: im dumb and id like to adhere closer to the CONTRIBUTING.md. there are also bits in the working pr #21 that has, currently, slackware bits reliant on coreutils as well. (the suggestion i put forth, i mean.)

Hi, nice work done here. I didn't make a PR as I thought it would be better to discuss it first.

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this is AUR. It would be pretty simple to add a wrapper over yay for example and put it before pacman so that it picks it up whenever it finds it. But, this wouldn't be always what the user wants. For example, I usually do -Syu from pacman. For AUR I update only specific packages from time to time.

Other stuff that came to my mind, things like pip, npm, or even go get. Also, for some users they might want flatpak or snap. I made something similar for my dotfiles here but it wasn't meant to be a package manager. Only an installer for my dots.

The point is, should we have a way to manually select the actual package manager here or that would be too much?

At the very least they ought to be simplified/generalized. At worst, just remove them.

Every other package manager does only update OR upgrade, while xbps can do update by itself but not upgrade.

Do you think it would be a good idea to replace the help menu arrows (->) with the cactus emoji? Might be fun.

~ cpm h
cpm [i|r|l|C|u|U|s|S|I|c|h] [pkg]...
🌵 i | install install one or more packages
🌵 r | remove  remove one or more packages
🌵 l | list    list installed packages
🌵 C | count   count installed packages
🌵 u | update  update package lists
🌵 U | upgrade upgrade all packages
🌵 s | search  search for a package
🌵 S | show    show information about a package
🌵 I | info    same as show
🌵 c | clean   clean up leftover files/caches/orphans
🌵 h | help    show this message

Hi willecles! I want to contribute this package manager and add tce support, but tce require more than one command to remove extenstion.

1. remove it from /tce/onboot.list
2. reboot
3. remove extenstion from /tce/optional

At the moment, only xbps uses this, but presumably this would be useful for any other PM with a from command.

The function:

The usage:

This is adjacent to #51, which should be an addition to the resolve() function.

Hi, there.

Thanks for creating and maintaining cpm, it is a nice and useful tool!

On Fedora 36, the result of cpm update and cpm upgrade are the same. I use zsh with oh-my-zshell, and it shows a red prompt when the previous command resulted in an error (and green if everything is fine), and it seems that dnf check-update exits with some error code when there are updates available, so the second part of cpm upgrade after the && will not run:

Regards

As noted in #38, XBPS upgrade does both update and upgrade, while everywhere else only an upgrade is performed. We probably want to combine these two into one, since partial upgrades are cursed and you rarely want to do an upgrade without an update.

So i installed this as a way to debloat my install of Slackware 15.0 cause im running it off a 16gb hdd however even after copying it to usr/bin it gives me the message no valid package manager detected even though i obivously have slackpkg installed.

Slackware needs a proper implementation of files. This is being worked on in pull request #44. Assuming everything looks good, this issue should be resolved soon.

Some useful ones I use and always forget

• List files in package
  • Debian: dpkg -L <pkg>
  • Arch: pacman -Ql <pkg>
• Show package which owns a file
  • Debian: dpkg -S /path/to/file
  • Arch: pacman -Qo /path/to/file

apk has tot setup wrong. It's using apk -vv info || tot;;, which includes ||, the OR operator, when it should be |, the pipe operator. I would do this myself, and probably will, but the current PR is supposed to drop soon and I don't want to cause any complications.

(Also: why is Adélie listed in the comments of cpm, but not on the README next to Alpine? lol)