vpm is a simple to use, daily-driver enhancement to the awesome XBPS (X Binary
Package System), initially designed as a helper tool for use with VoidLinux.
Feel free to think "Void Package Management" or something if it helps you
remember its name, but please note that it's NOT a "package manager" in the
nitpickers understanding of the word - especially vpm shouldn't be confused with
XBPS - vpm is just an addon helper tool for XBPS to make your life easier.
That's it.
Screenshot of a (not so) recent (anymore) vpm release:
Screenshot of vpm in full effect:
I initially found XBPS to have a steep learning-curve, so I wanted to ease the life of new VoidLinux users, and XBPS users in general. Please don't feel afraid to look up the corresponding XBPS commands it translates to, or use vpm --show-translations so you even see the translations already when using vpm help. It has been said that vpm will ease the transition from Debian's APT, and some other user-friendly repository/package-managers.
vpm requires BASH, the Bourne Again SHell, which should be installed by default on a new VoidLinux system. You also will need git to obtain a clone of the vpm GitHub repository (see "Installation" section, below).
$ xbps-install -S git
$ git clone git://github.com/bahamas10/vpm.git
Now put vpm in that newly-cloned repository somewhere where it can be
executed. Personally, I do this (inside the git repo)
mkdir -p ~/bin
ln -s "$PWD/vpm" ~/bin/vpm
And I have ~/bin as part of my $PATH.
Rainbows and unicorns, indeed. If you like colorized output, please see the --color=true option, too! All vpm options try to have human readable and easy to remember syntax, no --long-option-with-multiple-complex-words, no need to even prefix arguments with --, vpm just tries to do its best it can to understand the user (there are some command-line-switches, though, see vpm help).
vpm is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3. See the LICENSE file for further information.
Copyright (c) 2016: Armin Jenewein <vpm@m2m.pm>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- vpm was written by Armin Jenewein (GitHub: @netzverweigerer) vpm@m2m.pm
- this fork is maintained by Dave Eddy (GitHub: @bahamas10) dave@daveeddy.com