unixpackage 0.3

One command to install equivalent packages in Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat and Mac OS X.

UnixPackage is a UNIX independent way of installing packages. Specify the Ubuntu package name (e.g. libpq-dev), and it will install the equivalent on your system (e.g. postgresql-libs on Arch).

Install

Make sure that you have pip installed (any version). Then run:

$ pip install unixpackage

Simple Usage

Run:

$ unixpackage install libpq-dev

On Arch this will run:

$ sudo pacman -S postgresql-libs

On Debian and Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

On Mac OS X:

$ brew install postgresql

On Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora:

$ sudo yum install postgresql-devel

Other usage

You can also just print the command to install rather than running it:

$ unixpackage show libpq-dev libssl-dev
sudo pacman -S postgresql-libs openssl

Or just check to see if it is installed:

$ unixpackage check libpq-dev openssl
Installed

Python API

There is also a python API for the above commands:

import unixpackage
import sys

# Install package if not already installed
unixpackage.install(["libpq-dev"])

# Check if packages are installed
if unixpackage.packages_installed(["libpq-dev"]):
    sys.stdout.write("libpq-dev installed")

Where does it get the package names from?

Here : http://unixpackage.github.io/libpq-dev.json

To add packages, fork this repository and submit a pull request to this repository: http://github.com/unixpackage/unixpackage.github.io

Raising an issue if you want packages added is also welcome.