Short: Package manager for AmigaOS 3.x Author: thomas@amiga-imager.com (Thomas Luebker) Uploader: thomas amiga-imager com (Thomas Luebker) Type: util/sys Version: 0.7.6 Replaces: util/sys/amipkg.lha Requires: AmigaOS 3.0+, C:lha; bsdsocket.library for downloads Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.0 Distribution: Aminet URL: https://github.com/thomas-luebker/amipkg amipkg - install, update and remove software on your Amiga ========================================================= amipkg is a package manager for classic AmigaOS 3.x - think "apt" or "Homebrew" for your Amiga. It installs, updates and removes software from a curated catalog of 200+ freely-distributable classics and tools: players, commodities, internet apps, development tools and games. It resolves and downloads everything straight on the Amiga. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT ----------------------- Signed catalog, verified on the Amiga The package index is Ed25519-signed offline, and your Amiga checks that signature before it will use the index. Every download is then checked against a SHA-256 recorded inside it. A tampered index or a tampered archive is refused. No other Amiga tool does this. It cleans up after itself A receipt database records every file written and every boot-script change made. "amipkg remove" deletes only what it installed and strips its own User-Startup blocks - nothing else. "amipkg doctor" audits your installs against those receipts. It knows what a package needs Dependencies are installed first, and the right CPU build is picked for your machine (68000 to 68060, via AttnFlags). FEATURES -------- * Three front-ends, one implementation: - a fast CLI: avail, info, install, upgrade, remove, update, list and doctor, with a DRYRUN preview - a GadTools GUI needing no extra dependencies - a MUI GUI (3.8+) Both GUIs offer browsing, search, category filter, newest-first sorting, one-click install with live progress, Run and Adopt. * Multiple repositories. Install from the curated catalog, from your club's, or from your own. A repository is just two static files on any web server. Sign yours and your users get exactly the same on-Amiga verification the official catalog gets. Repository order decides which one wins a package name, and "repo:package" asks a specific one. See HOSTING.md in the source repository. * Adopt an app you already have: "amipkg adopt" takes over managing an existing installation, so updates land where you already keep it. * Self-updating: "amipkg upgrade amipkg". * Runs on a stock 68000 under AmigaOS 3.0+, with a guaranteed 128 KB stack via StackSwap - whatever your Shell happens to be set to. REQUIREMENTS ------------ Needed AmigaOS 3.0 or newer, and C:lha (present on almost every system). Downloads A TCP/IP stack providing bsdsocket.library - Roadshow, AmiTCP, Miami, or an emulator's built-in one. Browsing the bundled catalog works offline. Optional AmiSSL 5.x, which enables downloads from https-only hosts such as GitHub. Everything on Aminet works without it. INSTALLATION ------------ Extract into a drawer of your choice. amipkg LIVES in that drawer, the way MUI: does, with the signed catalog seeded for offline browsing. Install Self-contained. Nothing outside the drawer is ever touched, and uninstalling means deleting the drawer. Install-System The same, plus an AMIPKG: assign and a Shell path added to S:User-Startup as one clearly marked block. QUICK START ----------- amipkg avail mod search the catalog amipkg install hippoplayer install a package amipkg check anything outdated? amipkg upgrade update everything amipkg repo list your repositories CONTRIBUTING ------------ Package submissions are pull requests, reviewed and signed by a maintainer - Homebrew-style. The tooling is pure Python, so neither an Amiga nor a Mac is needed to add a package: https://github.com/thomas-luebker/amiga-pkg You can also submit straight from the Amiga with "amipkg submit". amipkg is part of the Amiga Imager project (https://amiga-imager.com), but it runs on ANY AmigaOS 3.x system - Amiga Imager is not required.