Shade package manager

Shade is a simple package manager, mostly for Linux, that is written in shell.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Why another package manager?
• Contributing and support

Installation

• Download and move src/shade to a directory in your path.
• Run shade init --local if you want to use shade just for yourself, or shade init --global if you want package installed with shade to be available for everyone
• Add ~/.shade/bin (if you installed locally) and /opt/shade/bin (if you installed globally) to your $PATH

Usage

Shade has quite a few commands available for use.

• help: Shows a message describing the different commands
• init: Initializes the directories for shade to work
• install: Installs the specified packages
• uninstall: Uninstalls the specified packages
• reinstall: Reinstalls the specified packages
• query: Searches for packages matching query
• list: Lists installed packages
• update: Updates buildscripts

Why another package manager?

Shade has a few advantages over other packages managers

• Shade buildscripts are written in shell, so you don’t need shade to build packages, making buildscripts extremely flexible
• Shade is written in shell, so it is portable and can run on macOS, BSD, and even WSL (although without support)
• Shade is also easily extensible, as you can edit it without needing to recompile
• Shade is fairly fast, since it doesn’t do too many things

Contributing and support

If you have a question, you can open an issue, join our Matrix room, or ask in Github Discussions. If you want to contribute, feel free to fork this repo and create a pull request.