OmniPkg

OmniPkg is a simple wrapper around your other package managers to allow you to access them all from one place. It has both a GUI and CLI interface available.

Status

OmniPkg is still in development. It is not itself packaged for any distros and it only supports a few package managers out of the box.

Features

• Access basic functions of all your package managers from one application
• Add new package managers with simple config files (default is TOML but Omnipkg should recognize JSON and INI files as well)

Using It

OmniPkg is still in development and not ready for normal use.

If you want to run Omnipkg for testing without installing:

• Clone the repo
• In a terminal navigate to the git repo folder
• If you have Just simply do "just gui" (or "just cli" for the command line interface, this just command can't take flags however)
  • This Just command creates a venv, installs the dependencies, and runs the code as a module from the src directory.
• If you do not have Just:
  • Install the dependencies in "requirements.txt" (in a virtual environment or otherwise)
  • Do "cd src"
  • Do "python3 -m omnipkg.gui" (or "python3 -m omnipkg.cli" with arguments for the command line interface)

Installing Omnipkg:

• Clone the repo
• In a terminal navigate to the git repo folder
• If you have Just installed, you can install it with simply "just install"
• If you do not have Just installed:
  • Build the package with "python3 -m build"
  • Navigate to the new "dist" folder
  • Install the .whl file with pip "python3 -m pip install WHEEL_FILENAME_HERE.whl"
• To use the GUI app run "omnipkg-gui" in a terminal
  • To install the desktop entry and icons so OmniPkg shows up in your application menu run "omnipkg-gui install-appfiles"
• To use the CLI app run "omnipkg" in a terminal, get help on the commands with "omnipkg --help"

Configuration

Package Manager Definitions

You can add or change the package manager definition JSON files. To do so, add your new pm-def files in the ~/.config/omnipkg/pm-defs directory. Take a look at the existing pm-def files in this repository to understand the format. This format is likely to change as it is a bit terse currently.

Package Details Formatting

You can change the way the package details are shown in the right pane by placing a markdown file named "package-details-template.md" in the ~/.config/omnipkg/ directory, using python formatting syntax for values to insert. See the default template in this repository for an example. Valid package attributes for the template are:

• name
• id
• pm
• summary
• description
• website
• icon_url
• icon
• installed
• updatable

Supported package managers

• Eopkg
• Flatpak
• Snap
• Homebrew (Mac & Linux)
• Pacman (untested, this will likely require some new features for detecting user input prompts)

TODO

• Add support for Apt package manager
• Polish GUI
• Add advanced configuration/settings