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The universal installer and updater to (container) tools

uniget is inspired by the convenience script to install the Docker daemon. But the scope is much larger.

uniget is meant to bootstrap a new box with Docker as well as install useful tools from the container ecosystem and beyond. It can also be used to update these tools. It aims to be distribution-agnostic and provide reasonable default configurations. Personally, I am using it to prepare virtual machines for my own experiments as well as training environments.

Tools are downloaded, installed and updated automatically.

Download and run uniget:

curl -sLf https://gitlab.com/uniget-org/cli/-/releases/permalink/latest/downloads/uniget_Linux_$(uname -m).tar.gz \
| sudo tar -xzC /usr/local/bin uniget

See the documentation site.

The uniget CLI comes with help included. The following scenarios are meant as quickstart tutorials.

By default, uniget will only install a small set of tools.

uniget install --default

List which tools are available in uniget:

uniget list

It is possible to install individual tools:

uniget install jq
uniget install kubectl helm

You can search for the specified term in names, tags and dependencies:

uniget search jq

Updated tools which are already installed:

uniget update
uniget upgrade

Show which tools will be processed and updated:

uniget install containerd --plan
uniget upgrade --plan

By adding the --reinstall parameter, the selected tools can be reinstalled regardless if they are outdated:

uniget install jq --reinstall

To update the uniget CLI itself, run:

uniget self-upgrade