Package Managers

Homebrew

• brew help
• brew commands
• brew install formula
• brew upgrade formula
• brew list --versions - lists installed only
• brew info formula
• brew reinstall
• brew install --cask messenger --appdir=~/Applications/

pip

• pip install --force-reinstall --upgrade
• pip show -f <package> - show info on what got installed where, -f gives list of files
• pip install jedi==0.17.2 - when downgrading a version use double == (compared with conda's single =)

conda

• Managing conda environments
• conda update -n base -c defaults conda
• conda info
• conda config --show
  • conda config --add channels conda-forge
  • conda config --set channel_priority strict
• conda init zsh
• command -v conda - alternative to which conda for zsh
• conda list and pip list - list installed packages
• conda env list
• conda activate rstanenv
• conda install -c conda-forge r-mcmcglmm r-brms
• conda update conda
• conda create --name CondaR -c r -c conda-forge r-lme4 r-tidyverse r-broom.mixed r-skimr r-tictoc r-rlang r-magrittr r-glue r-performance r-ggally r-irkernel r-furrr r-mice r-glmnet jupyterlab r-plotly r-rbokeh r-glmmtmb
• conda env remove -n rstanenv
• conda create --name py310 python=3.10 jupyterlab pandas=1.5.3 ruff pylint numpy scipy matplotlib scikit-learn scikit-image seaborn statsmodels pyarrow openpyxl
• conda search mxnet
• conda install -y boost
• conda install -c conda-forge <package name>
• conda update -n base -c defaults conda - Update base conda
• conda remove --name ENV_NAME --all

Chocolatey

• Run as administrator to install stuff
• Chocolatey - windows package manager - does hash
• choco -?
• choco list -l - list locally installed packages only
• choco upgrade chocolatey
• choco uninstall

yum/dnf

• DNF = "dandified yum"
• "DNF is the next upcoming major version of YUM, a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions. It roughly maintains CLI compatibility with YUM and defines a strict API for extensions and plugins."

Examples

1. yum -y install ____
2. yum -y remove ____
3. yum update mysql
4. yum list openssh search for a specific package name, jackpot
5. yum search ______ search for a specific package name, partial string matches included
6. yum info firefox - get info on package before installing it
7. yum list installed | less
8. yum provides /path/to/package/filename -
9. yum check-update- find how many installed packages on your system have updates available
10. yum update - install all the latest patches and security updates
11. yum grouplist - lists both installed and available
12. yum groupinstall 'MySQL Database'
13. yum groupupdate 'DNS Name Server'
14. yum groupremove 'DNS Name Server'
15. yum repolist
16. yum repolist all - display all enabled and disables repos
17. yum --enablerepo=<REPONAME> install _____
18. yum clean all - Clean Yum Cache
19. yum history

apt

• apt list --installed