soypak

An additional package manager for managing Debian apps on Linux distros.

This branch is an early prototype to demonstrate the CLI interaction with soypak, and provides a vision of what is to be created. It is not an early prototype which can perform package management. With that, there may be typos and other bugs.

Setup & Installation

This branch can be cloned with the following command.

git clone --single-branch --branch 11435da41b https://git.closedless.xyz/ClosedLess/soypak.git
cd soypak/

Afterwards, a virtual environment should be created to prevent system-wide pip installation.

python3 -m venv <virtualenv>

Then the following pip installation commands can be ran

pip3 install -e .
pip3 install clog-x.x.xxx-py3-none-any.whl # where x.x.xxx is the latest version release

You can fetch the latest version of CLog from here. Either the .whl or tar.gz file.

Using soypak

After setting up soypak, the app can be ran using the Python interpreter

python3 soypak/soypak-cli.py help

This will print the help message to the terminal and exit. Here, the help command is used explicitly, however the same can be achieved by providing no commands (an additional error message will also be printed at the top in red).

The following is the output printed

Usage: soypak [options] <command> [arguments]

A package manager to manage Microsoft apps.

Where <command> is one of:
  help        Display the help message of the give command(s), or print this message.

Options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --version   show the program's version number and exit

Author(s): Ethan Smith-Coss.
Contacts: ethan.sc@closedless.xyz

Thanks for using our software 🍪
Copyright (C) ClosedLess 2023. Licensed under GNU GPLv3+

As stated in the printed message, help provides the help message of a given command. With this, we can pass 'help' as an argument to help

python3 soypak/soypak-cli.py help help

This will produce the following output

help: Display the help message of the give command(s), or print this message.

Usage: Usage: help [<command1>, <command2>, ..., <commandn>]

If no arguments are specified, the general help message is displayed.

Help messages are structured in the following format:

• <command name>: <synopsis> - the name of the command and its shortest description
• <usage> - how to use the command in question
• <summary> - an extended description of the command