catios/cati

Cati Unix Package Manager

Cati package manager

cati is a package manager for GNU/Linux/UNIX systems. cati is written in python

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               | |_____| |            * Meow.....! I am Cati!   *
              |  --   --  |       ....* I can manage your       *
             |  { { * } }  | ..../    * Packages!               *
              |           |           *                         *
     __________|         |            * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    /                     |
   /                      |
__/_  __  _________  _   _|
    |_| |_|       |_| |_|

Why cati?

some features of cati:

• Cati is user friendly, very simple and easy to use
• Cati has all in one. You don't need to have package manager, dependency manager and graphical interface separated
• Cati repositories structure is simple and also smart and powerful
• Cati packages format is .cati, also cati supports .deb and .rpm packages alongside .cati packages
• Cati has some tools to check your system health and keep that secure
• Cati has a graphical interface(comming soon...)

Authors

cati written by parsampsh and contributors

License

cati licensed under GPL-v3

Documentation

you can read full documentation of cati in doc folder

Contributing

if you want to contribute to cati project, read contributing guide

Security policy

read cati security policy in here.

Installation

Installing via pip

You can install cati with pip:

sudo pip3 install cati

now you can run it:

cati
# OR
python3 -m cati

NOTE: surely run pip install using sudo

Installing via Compiling the source code (Not recommended)

before compile and install cati, install the cati dev-dependencies:

• python3 (>= 3.6)
• pip3
• virtualenv
• make

to check them you can use the following commands:

python3 --version
python3 -m pip --version
virtualenv --version
make --version

then:

git clone https://github.com/catios/cati.git
cd cati

# install dependencies
virtualenv venv -p python3
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

# compile and install
make -j4 # use `-jN` option to speed up build process

now, built execultable binary is created in dist/cati. you can run this by ./dist/cati.

Also You can install this by running:

sudo make install clean

now you can run cati in termianl:

cati

If you want to remove it, use make uninstall:

sudo make uninstall

Running without compiling

You can run Cati with python interpreter:

git clone https://github.com/catios/cati.git
cd cati

# install dependencies
virtualenv venv -p python3
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

# run cati (argument `cati` points to `cati/` directory)
python3 cati
# OR
./cati/__main__.py