autopip 1.0.4

Easily install apps from PyPI and automatically keep them updated

autopip

Easily install apps from PyPI and automatically keep them updated.

FYI Currently supports Python 3.x apps only, but 2.x is coming soon.

To install autopip to /usr/local/bin for all users (recommended):

sudo pip3 install autopip

No need to worry about tainting system Python install as autopip has no install dependencies and never will. Alternatively, you can install it in a virtual environment and obviously that is not available to other users:

python3 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/autopip
source ~/.virtualenvs/autopip/bin/activate
pip3 install autopip

Now, you can easily install any apps from PyPI without having to manage virtualenvs or re-run pip again to update as autopip does all that for you automatically – one virtualenv per app version and auto-updated atomically and hourly via cron service whenever a new version is released:

$ autopip install workspace-tools
Installing workspace-tools to /usr/local/opt/apps/workspace-tools/3.2.2
Hourly auto-update enabled via cron service
Updating symlinks in /usr/local/bin
+ wst

Install paths are selected based on your user’s permission to write to /opt or /usr/local/opt. If you do not have permission for either, then autopip will install to your user home at ~/.apps, therefore you will need to add ~/.apps/bin to your PATH env var to easily run scripts from installed apps. To install script symlinks to /usr/local/bin, either chmod/chown dirs in /usr/local/* to be writeable by your user or run autopip using sudo. To see why a particular path is selected, append --debug after autopip when running it.

To save typing a few letters, you can also use the app alias – short for autopip – instead of autopip. It is the same as autopip except it does not auto-update unless you provide a value to --update option (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly, monthly).

$ app install ansible-hostmanager
Installing ansible-hostmanager to /usr/local/opt/apps/ansible-hostmanager/0.2.3
Updating script symlinks in /usr/local/bin
+ ah

To show currently installed apps and their scripts:

$ app list --scripts
ansible-hostmanager  0.2.3   /usr/local/opt/apps/ansible-hostmanager/0.2.3
                             /usr/local/bin/ah
workspace-tools      3.2.2   /usr/local/opt/apps/workspace-tools/3.2.2      [updates hourly]
                             /usr/local/bin/wst

To uninstall:

app uninstall workspace-tools

And you can even keep autopip updated automatically by installing itself:

$ sudo autopip install autopip
Installing autopip to /opt/apps/autopip/1.0.0
Updating symlinks in /usr/local/bin
* app (updated)
* autopip (updated)

Now, that’s convenience! ;)

To control versioning and uniform installations across multiple hosts/users, you can also define an autopip installation group using entry points. See example in developer-tools package.

If you need to use a private PyPI index, just configure index-url in ~/.pip/pip.conf as autopip simply uses pip under the hood.

Links & Contact Info

PyPI Package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopip

GitHub Source: https://github.com/maxzheng/autopip

Report Issues/Bugs: https://github.com/maxzheng/autopip/issues

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