Universal Package Manager(upm)

upm is meant to be a frontend for a number of package managers. Ideal for when:

• a package is offerred by multiple package managers (e.g. Pacman and Python-pip)
• You constantly switch package managers and have to relearn their syntax

upm is written in Rust, and uses your path to determine what package managers are available. If a supported package manager isn't showing up then double check that it exists in your path with the expected name.

Supported package managers

As this project is just starting the package manager list is rather small. You can help to expand this list by putting in the data for another package manager. For more information see contributing.

Planned to support in initial version

• Pacman
• npm
• pip2
• pip3

Local versus Global packages

Some package managers like npm allow you to install a package in a project directory. This is not planned to be supported in the initial version of upm, but should be supported in later versions.

Contributing

Currently upm is still being scaffolded and properly architected and is not ready to add new package managers. Once the design is settled on, a standardized format will be established for package manager addition.

FAQ (Frequently Anticipated Questions)

These questions may or may not have been asked already

• Why not use alpm instead of Pacman (or the backend of any other package manager)
  • Commands are run with pacman and like commands to allow the easy addition of further package managers via a simplified format.