UNIX Package Manager Detector (Go edition)

This Go library is a simple tool to detect and return all package managers installed on a system.

To use it in your project, run the following command: go get github.com/mportizlunyov/go-unix-pkg-detector

Then, import github.com/mportizlunyov/go-unix-pkg-detector in your Go program. See the following methods below.

Report() ([]string, []string)

Returns 2 []string arrays containing:

1. Official, distribution package managers
2. Alternative package managers

Version() (string)

Returns the full version, including version name, of this library

Example:

Code:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	// Imported library
	"github.com/mportizlunyov/go-unix-pkg-detector/unixpkgdetector"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello!")
	// Report() method
	fmt.Println(unixpkgdetector.Report())
	// Version() method
	fmt.Println(unixpkgdetector.Version())
}

Result on a typical default Ubuntu systems:

Hello!
[apt] [snap]
v1.0.4-release ( November 24th, 2024)