grm
An experimental package manager for GitHub Releases (by jsnjack)
stew
🥘 An independent package manager for compiled binaries. (by marwanhawari)
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
grm
Posts with mentions or reviews of grm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
stew
Posts with mentions or reviews of stew.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-22.
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The culmination of several months of work by dozens of people, Flatpak 1.14.0 is now out!
There used to be a project called ginstall.sh that kept like, a manually maintained database of various projects with static binaries and how to install them. It still exists, but maintenance stopped because its model was also not sustainable. Its use case is better covered by tools like asdf, stew, and if you want to get even simpler, eget.
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I made a tool to download and run popular CLI tools like youtube-dl, jq, and ripgrep without installing them
This is a recipe for a disaster. Just use Stew.
- stew: An independent package manager for compiled binaries
What are some alternatives?
When comparing grm and stew you can also consider the following projects:
jitter - give the finger to git clone
bin - Effortless binary manager
github-releases-notifier - Receive Slack notifications for new releases of your favorite software on GitHub.
eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
huber - Huber 📦, Package Install Manager for GitHub repos
pastel - A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
npackd - Package manager for Microsoft Windows: Wiki, bug tracker, mirror of the default repositories
1bin
dotman - better manager for your dotfiles.
peg - Peg, Parsing Expression Grammar, is an implementation of a Packrat parser generator.
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager