Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS

Summary

KELP A simple replacement for homebrew for installing binary packages on MacOS written in Go. I built Kelp to scratch my own itch: No waiting for a formula to become available on homebrew Keep all your computers up to date with a single installation manifest Install multiple packages at one time (coming soon...) How To Install Go to the releases page. Download the latest release Screenshots kelp list kelp doctor How Do I Use It? Initialize Kelp kelp init Add kelp binary path to your PATH export PATH=~/.kelp/bin/:$PATH Add a new package kelp add ogham/exa To use a specific version other than latest use the -r flag. Where -r is the github release version kelp add -r 1.0.0 ogham/exa Install kelp install exa or add -i during kelp add kelp add -i ogham/exa Upgrade to a new version manually kelp set -r 1.0.1 exa kelp install exa Check for a new version kelp update exa kelp install exa or kelp update -i exa How Does it Work? It downloads all github releases packages defined in the config file ~/.kelp/kelp.json to ~/.kelp/bin . How do I configure the config file path Either use the --config flag or KELP_CONFIG environment variable Flags: -c, --config string path to kelp config file (default "/Users/username/.kelp/kelp.json") What if the package I want is not on github releases? Easy. Just add the http(s) link to the binary ie: kelp add -r https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.13/terraform_0.11.13_darwin_amd64.zip hashicorp/terraform Troubleshooting Use inspect to open the cache and bin directories for your package kelp inspect Why wasnt my package installed ? Kelp looks for binaries made for MacOS, if it finds a binary for linux or windows it will skip downloading it. To see what binaries exist use: kelp doctor If your binary has a different filename than the name of the Github project, kelp doctor may not find it. To give it a hint you can add the name of the binary to the kelp config kelp set -b "jira" jira-cli To see whats in your config use: kelp ls Does it work...