apt-local 0.0.2b1

Simple symlink-based package manager for local installations (without sudo)

apt-local

Simple symlink-based package manager for local installations (without sudo)

• Free software: GNU General Public License v3

• Documentation: https://apt-local.readthedocs.io.

Features

Meant for Debian-based distributions: such as Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint and so on.

This package is born out of the frustration of a typical grad student who has no admin-rights over the machine, and has to rely on the system-admin over and over for installation of that "X" package.

Requirements

• Debian-based OS or atleast dpkg, apt-get and apt-cache installed
• GNU Stow: HTTP | FTP | Git | CPAN

If Stow is not available in the system you may use this script to install it.

Warning

This is an experimental project, and often results in hit-or-miss situation. The advantages with apt-local is a lightweight installation and installing packages requires no compilation. If you want a more robust package manager use one of the following:

• NixOS/nix
• conda/conda
• fsquillace/junest
• bpkg/bpkg

Quick start

Install the package using either of the following commands

python setup.py install --user  # with the source code
pip install apt-local --user  # without the source code

To get started choose a local directory where you would like the package to be installed. For example ~/.local or <path-to-scratch-directory>/.local and a directory called apt-cache (name can be anything) under it (very important!). This can simply be done as:

apt-local set-path ~/.local/apt-cache
apt-local show-path

Installing a .deb package is made as simple as:

usage: apt-local install [-h] pkg

positional arguments:
  pkg

For example apt-local install wget.

Usage

The subcommands serve self-explanatory purposes. The subcommands set-path and show-path are used to configure path and display the configured path respectively.

usage: apt-local [-h] {install,uninstall,list,set-path,show-path} ...

positional arguments:
  {install,uninstall,list,set-path,show-path}

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Make your installation useable by setting up environment variables such as PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, CPATH etc. in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc. The following snippet can be adapted:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
export CPATH=$CPATH:$HOME/.local/include
export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/.local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/.local/lib

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the ashwinvis/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.0.2b1 (2019-09-04)

• Option -y for install and uninstall

0.0.2b0 (2019-05-15)

• No need to change directory
• Now supports uninstall, list and other configuration option
• Flattten usr dir
• Avoid duplicate dependencies
• Add search subcommand
• Refactor to use src/ layout using cookiecutter

0.0.1b0 (2018-01-19)

• First release, simple install option alone