Meta Package Manager

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What is Meta Package Manager?

• provides the mpm CLI, a wrapper around all package managers
• mpm is like yt-dlp, but for package managers instead of videos
• mpm solves XKCD #1654 - Universal Install Script

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Quick start

Thanks to uv, you can run mpm on any platform in one command, without installation or venv:

$ uvx meta-package-manager

Features

<img align="right" width="30%" height="30%" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/main/docs/assets/mpm-outdated-cli.png"/> <img align="right" width="30%" height="30%" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/main/docs/assets/mpm-managers-cli.png"/>

• Inventory and list all package managers available on the system.
• Supports macOS, Linux and Windows.
• Standalone executables for Linux, macOS and Windows.
• List installed packages.
• List duplicate installed packages.
• Search for packages.
• Install a package.
• Remove a package.
• List outdated packages.
• List orphaned packages.
• Sync local package infos.
• Diagnose the health of package managers.
• Upgrade all outdated packages.
• Mitigate supply-chain attacks with a release-age cooldown that refuses too-recent versions: mpm --cooldown "7 days" upgrade --all.
• Snapshot installed packages to a TOML manifest or a Brewfile.
• Restore/install list of packages from TOML files.
• Software Bill of Materials: export installed packages to SPDX and CycloneDX SBOM files.
• Pin-point commands to a subset of package managers (include/exclude selectors).
• Support plain, versioned and purl package specifiers.
• Export output to JSON or user-friendly tables.
• Shell auto-completion for Bash, Zsh and Fish.
• Provides a Xbar/SwiftBar plugin for friendly macOS integration.
• Provides a GNOME Shell extension for friendly Linux desktop integration.
• Because mpm try to wrap all other package managers, it became another pathological case of XKCD #927: Standards

Supported package managers

One CLI to rule them all:

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Meta Package Manager,apk,1
Meta Package Manager,apm,1
Meta Package Manager,apt,1
Meta Package Manager,apt-cyg,1
Meta Package Manager,apt-mint,1
Meta Package Manager,asdf,1
Meta Package Manager,brew,1
Meta Package Manager,cargo,1
Meta Package Manager,cask,1
Meta Package Manager,cave,1
Meta Package Manager,choco,1
Meta Package Manager,chromebrew,1
Meta Package Manager,composer,1
Meta Package Manager,conda,1
Meta Package Manager,cpan,1
Meta Package Manager,deb-get,1
Meta Package Manager,dnf,1
Meta Package Manager,dnf5,1
Meta Package Manager,emerge,1
Meta Package Manager,eopkg,1
Meta Package Manager,fink,1
Meta Package Manager,flatpak,1
Meta Package Manager,fwupd,1
Meta Package Manager,gem,1
Meta Package Manager,gh-ext,1
Meta Package Manager,guix,1
Meta Package Manager,macports,1
Meta Package Manager,mas,1
Meta Package Manager,mise,1
Meta Package Manager,nix,1
Meta Package Manager,npm,1
Meta Package Manager,opkg,1
Meta Package Manager,pacaur,1
Meta Package Manager,pacman,1
Meta Package Manager,pacstall,1
Meta Package Manager,paru,1
Meta Package Manager,pip,1
Meta Package Manager,pipx,1
Meta Package Manager,pkcon,1
Meta Package Manager,pkg,1
Meta Package Manager,pkg-tools,1
Meta Package Manager,pkgin,1
Meta Package Manager,pnpm,1
Meta Package Manager,ports,1
Meta Package Manager,pwsh-gallery,1
Meta Package Manager,scoop,1
Meta Package Manager,sdkman,1
Meta Package Manager,sfsu,1
Meta Package Manager,slapt-get,1
Meta Package Manager,snap,1
Meta Package Manager,soar,1
Meta Package Manager,sorcery,1
Meta Package Manager,steamcmd,1
Meta Package Manager,stew,1
Meta Package Manager,sun-tools,1
Meta Package Manager,swupd,1
Meta Package Manager,tazpkg,1
Meta Package Manager,tlmgr,1
Meta Package Manager,topgrade,1
Meta Package Manager,urpmi,1
Meta Package Manager,uv,1
Meta Package Manager,uvx,1
Meta Package Manager,volta,1
Meta Package Manager,vscode,1
Meta Package Manager,vscodium,1
Meta Package Manager,winget,1
Meta Package Manager,xbps,1
Meta Package Manager,yarn,1
Meta Package Manager,yarn-berry,1
Meta Package Manager,yay,1
Meta Package Manager,yum,1
Meta Package Manager,zerobrew,1
Meta Package Manager,zypper,1

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Metadata and operations

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| Package manager | Version | Cooldown | BSD[^bsd] | Linux[^linux] | macOS | Unix[^unix] | Windows | installed | outdated | orphans | search | install | upgrade | upgrade_all | remove | sync | cleanup | doctor | | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :--------------- | :------: | :-------: | :-----------: | :---: | :---------: | :-----: | :---------: | :--------: | :-------: | :------: | :-------: | :-------: | :-----------: | :------: | :----: | :-------: | :------: | | apk | >=2.10.0 | | | 🐧 | | | | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | apm ⚠️ | >=1.0.0 | | 🅱️ | 🐧 | 🍎 | | 🪟 | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | | apt