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Comet Package Manager

Comet is a next-generation package manager for Linux. It is designed to be fast, easy to use, and stable. It is built on top of the comet library, which is written in Rust as well.

Installation

Comet is the offical package manager for Wombat Linux, and is installed by default. If you are not using Wombat Linux, you can install Comet by downloading the latest release from the releases page, or by building it from source. To build from source, follow the "Building from source" section below.

Building from source

Prerequisites

To build Comet from source, you will need the following:

  • Rust 1.51 or newer
  • Cargo 1.51 or newer
  • Git
  • A C compiler (GCC, Clang, etc.)
  • Your OS's development tools (build-essential on Debian/Ubuntu, base-devel on Arch, etc.) for building comet
  • libssl

Building

To build Comet from source, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/wombatlinux/comet.git
cd comet
cargo build --release --all-targets

Installing

Installing after building is as simple as copying the binary to a directory in your PATH. For example:

sudo cp target/release/comet-cli /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/comet-cli /usr/local/bin/comet

The binary will be located at target/release/comet.

Usage

Comet is designed to be easy to use. It has a simple command-line interface, and is designed to be easy to use. To see the usage information, run comet --help.

Basic usage of Comet is as follows:

# Install a star
comet install <package>

# Update a star
comet update <package>

# Remove a star
comet remove <package>

# Update the package database
comet update-cache

# Update all stars
comet update-all

# List all installed stars
comet list

# List available stars
comet list-available