repolib 1.0.0

Easily manage software sources

RepoLib is a Python library and CLI tool-set for managing your software system software repositories. It’s currently set up to handle APT repositories on Debian-based linux distributions.

RepoLib is intended to operate on DEB822-format sources. It aims to provide feature parity with software-properties for most commonly used functions.

Documentation

Documentation is available online at Read The Docs.

Installation

From System Package Manager

If your operating system packages repolib, you can install it by running:

sudo apt install python3-repolib

Uninstall

To uninstall, simply do:

sudo apt remove python3-repolib

From PyPI

Repolib is available on PyPI. You can install it for your current user with:

pip3 install repolib

Alternatively, you can install it system-wide using:

sudo pip3 install repolib

Uninstall

To uninstall, simply do:

sudo pip3 uninstall repolib

From Git

First, clone the git repository onto your local system:

git clone https://github.com/isantop/repolib
cd repolib

Debian

On debian based distributions, you can build a .deb package locally and install it onto your system. You will need the following build-dependencies:

• debhelper (>=11)

• dh-python

• python3-all

• python3-setuptools

You can use this command to install these all in one go:

sudo apt install debhelper dh-python python3-all python3-setuptools

Then build and install the package:

debuild -us -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i python3-repolib_*.deb

Uninstall

To uninstall, simply do:

sudo apt remove python3-repolib

setuptools setup.py

You can build and install the package using python3-setuptools. First, install the dependencies:

sudo apt install python3-all python3-setuptools

Then build and install the package:

sudo python3 ./setup.py install

Uninstall

You can uninstall RepoLib by removing the following files/directories:

• /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/repolib/

• /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/repolib-*.egg-info

• /usr/local/bin/apt-manage

This command will remove all of these for you:

sudo rm -r /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/repolib* /usr/local/bin/apt-manage