Package Manager CLI

Package manager for installing GitHub releases.

It's a CLI tool that lets you search and install other CLI tools from GitHub from your console.

If you need to get the latest version of k9s, buf, kubectx, minikube, legendary or other package, you don't have to make changes to system installation (which may not be possible) or search for the latest release on GitHub, select a correct file for your OS/architecture, manually extract and install it.

All you have to do is to use pmcli install minikube, and it's done!

Installation

1. Download pmcli from releases page and place it in ~/.local/share/bin folder.
2. Run chmod +x ~/.local/share/bin/pmcli to make file executable.
3. Run pmcli to make sure everything is working.

NOTE: Make sure that ~/.local/share/bin is added to PATH environment variable.

Usage

Search for minikube on GitHub:

pmcli search minikube

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See info about minikube package:

pmcli info minikube

NOTE: It internally makes a search request, takes the first match (i. e. what GitHub considers to be the best match) and shows info about it.

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Install minikube for your OS/arch:

pmcli install minikube

NOTE: It internally makes a search request, takes the first match (i. e. what GitHub considers to be the best match) and installs the latest release.

NOTE: It extracts .tar.gz archive if necessary, then creates symlinks to binaries in ~/.local/share/bin folder. It can skip a binary file if it already exist there.

NOTE: You can use pmcli install {owner}/{repo} instead of shorter version pmcli install {repo} if the latter doesn't pick the correct repo.

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Uninstall minikube package (if it's installed):

pmcli uninstall minikube

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List installed packages:

pmcli list

Configuration

See internal/keys/keys.go for all values that can be configured via environment variables.

Bugs, ideas and contribution

If you've encountered a bug or want to request a feature, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.