Shell Package Management

Open-source Shell projects categorized as Package Management

Top 10 Shell Package Management Projects

Package Management
  1. bpkg

    Lightweight bash package manager

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. bioconda-recipes

    Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

  4. gpm

    Barebones dependency manager for Go.

  5. basalt

    The rock-solid Bash package manager. (by bash-bastion)

  6. cpm

    🌵 A wrapper for package managers to make them consistent for those of us who are lazy. (by willeccles)

  7. pkm

    A super minimal TUI package manager wrapper written in BASH v4.2+

  8. appimage-resources

    Companion repository for AppImage article on booleanworld.com

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. LFSPkgBuilds

    Build scripts for LFSPkg

  11. zypper-unjammed

    Brings package management with Zypper into the 21st Century by providing an autoremove command as well as facilities for marking package installation reasons as automatic or manual.

  12. pkglist

    Analyze installed packages on Arch Linux.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Package Management projects in Shell? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 bpkg 1,930
2 bioconda-recipes 1,736
3 gpm 1,183
4 basalt 76
5 cpm 69
6 pkm 52
7 appimage-resources 26
8 LFSPkgBuilds 12
9 zypper-unjammed 4
10 pkglist 3

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