install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install meta-package-manager

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%

scoop install main/meta-package-manager

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/meta-package-manager.json · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Wrapper around all package managers with a unifying CLI

Project links

Commands and aliases

meta-package-manager
mpm

history

Project history and usage

Meta Package Manager, commonly invoked as mpm, is a unifying command-line wrapper around many native package managers. The project is maintained by kdeldycke and describes itself as a package-manager analogue to yt-dlp: one CLI that discovers package managers on the machine and normalizes common operations such as listing installed packages, searching, installing, removing, syncing metadata, upgrading, and exporting package inventories.

Project history

The tool's history is tied less to one platform than to the long-standing problem of machines accumulating several package ecosystems at once. Its documentation and README show support across macOS, Linux, Windows, BSD-like systems, and managers including apt, brew, cargo, dnf, flatpak, gem, npm, pacman, pip, pipx, scoop, snap, winget, yarn, zypper, and others, with support varying by operation. Release notes and documentation also emphasize backup and restore manifests, release-age cooldowns as a supply-chain mitigation, and cross-platform standalone binaries.

Adoption history

In practice, mpm is a power-user and fleet-maintenance tool: it is useful when a workstation has Homebrew, pipx, npm, cargo, and OS packages side by side and the user wants one inventory or upgrade command. It sits near tools such as PackageKit, Ansible package modules, or platform-specific wrappers, but its niche is an interactive and scriptable local CLI rather than a configuration-management system.

How it is used

Homebrew and Scoop packaging reflect that niche: users install mpm through one package manager so it can inspect and orchestrate many others.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

text:package manager

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 4 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

macOS: pyproject.toml~/Library/Application Support/mpm/config.toml
Unix: pyproject.toml~/.config/mpm/config.toml
Windows: pyproject.toml%APPDATA%\mpm\config.toml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`meta-package-manager`	cli	global executable
`mpm`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version7.0.1

manager updated2026-06-28

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/

infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:meta-package-manager
Version	7.0.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/meta-package-manager
Homepage	https://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/
Repository	https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager
Upstream docs	https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager#readme
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archive	https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/88/8c/3a64fc201514510d906e7a9a37fc8f2d935f62aa939e2f9caa324d820e4a/meta_package_manager-7.0.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-28T12:46:41Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	certifi, libyaml, python@3.14, rpds-py
Build dependencies	rust
Uses from macOS	libxml2, libxslt
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	meta-package-manager
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Scoop95%

main/meta-package-manager

scoop install main/meta-package-manager

normalized package name match
Matched by: Meta Package Manager

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/meta-package-manager.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/meta-package-manager.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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