qingu/packman-1

This is another package manager, like Homebrew, but with the concern about compiler sensitivity and lack of internet connection. It can also run on most the Linux distros and Mac OS X. Let it SAVE your time!

Introduction

This is a tool written in Ruby to make the installation of packages automatically and painless. You may say we have already package managers in different Linux distributions, or even in Mac OS X (see Homebrew), but as a researcher who needs to run programs on the server will always face the problems:

• The libraries on the server are too old!
• The compilers are also too old! (GCC 4.1.2, seriously?)
• The server login node is not even connected with the internet!
• The software dependencies are nightmare!

All these problems make porting programs a headache, and we hesitate about using new language features (e.g. c++11) and good libraries, so here is packman. For more usage information, please refer here.

I would like to thank the Homebrew community, since I have referred the design of it quite a lot, but I do not just copycat homebrew. If you find packman is helpful, join me to form a great community to further improve it.

Features

• No root privilege is needed.
• Offline installation suite for big server with no internet connection.
• Easy FTP mirror setup.
• The packages can be installed anywhere you like.
• All processes are automatically (basicly).

Donation

If you find packman is useful (I spent hours to create it) and would like to support the further development of it, consider make a generous donation please:


Author

• Li Dong [email protected]