📦 PKGER

A simple and lightweight package manager written in Lua (currently only for Linux).

The purpose of this package manager is to allow packages to be distributed in Lua scripts in a simple way, allowing binaries to be distributed or compiled directly from source code.

⚠️ Warning PKGER is still in development and not yet secure for production use. It is highly recommended to test it in a container rather than on your main machine.

some packages: core-pkgs (Linux)

Features

• Uses URL patterns to obtain packages, allowing the use of an API and raw files in repositories.
• Supports package search (API and GitHub by default).
• Maintains different versions of a single package.
• No sudo needed.
• Simplified self-hosting of repositories (documentation pending).

TODO

• install script
• GitLab search
• Git repo search
• Metadata search
• Doc for self-hosting
• Write specifications.
• Improving dependency management.
• Makedepends

installation

Install script

TODO

Binary

Download the latest version at: latest

Lua script

You can use the package manager without compiling.

dependencies

• Git
• base-devel
• Lua 5.4
• Luarocks

git clone https://github.com/Diogo-ss/pkger.git
cd pkger

luarocks make --only-deps --lua-version=5.4 --local

eval "$(luarocks path --bin)"

lua src/main.lua --help

build

dependencies

• Git
• base-devel
• Luarocks
• Lua 5.4
• luastatic

git clone https://github.com/Diogo-ss/pkger.git

cd pkger

luarocks make --only-deps --lua-version=5.4 --local

eval "$(luarocks path --bin)"

luarocks install luastatic

make

./bin/pkger --help

PKG

A simple script to install Neovim in version 0.9.5 (binary)

name = "neovim"
description = "Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability"
homepage = "https://neovim.io"
license = "Apache-2.0"
manteiners = "Diogo-ss"
version = "0.9.4"
url = "https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v${{ version }}/nvim-linux64.tar.gz"

bin = "bin/nvim"

checkver = {
 url = "https://api.github.com/repos/neovim/neovim/releases/latest",
 jsonpath = "tag_name",
 regex = "[Vv]?(.+)",
}

function install()
 system("mv * ..")
end