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 urpmi
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 (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. 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 serv
command to control system services in system independed manner.
Pay attention to the following useful commands:
epmqf <command name>
- query package(s) owning fileepmqp <word>
- 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
Also you can use
epm play
to install the application from the official site.
For example, run epm play edge
to install Microsoft Edge browser in your 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 curl
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
- Fix detection with
distro_info
- Add distro support in
set_pm_type
function - Implement every command in epm-* files
- Ensure that
epm packages
andepm --short packages
works correctly (epm package 'awk'
have to print packages withawk
substring in their names)
See detailed description in Russian at http://wiki.etersoft.ru/Epm
Please e-mail if you have any questions:
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