Overview

Ewwii has its own package manager named eiipm built to be fast and reliant to manage packages that are built for ewwii.

In this section, we’ll cover:

• The use of eiipm
• Types of packages that eiipm support
• Command line arguments of eiipm

Adding eiipm to path

I am very sorry for adding this section in this unrelated part but this is a very important thing which people are likely to miss. By default, eiipm installs binaries to ~/.eiipm/bin directory. But your shell doesn’t know about it yet.

So, when you run something like bin-you-installed after installing a binary from eiipm, your shell will go like “Oh, let me check in all the known areas. Nope, bin-you-installed is not installed…”

So, you should add export PATH="$HOME/.eiipm/bin:$PATH" to your shell’s configuration file.

Here is an example on how to do it:

# Replace ~/.zshrc with your shell's configuration file.
# For example, if you use bash, then it would be ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.eiipm/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

I use zsh, so I added the line export PATH="$HOME/.eiipm/bin:$PATH" in ~/.zshrc but if you use something else, you should replace the ~/.zshrc with your own shell’s confiuration file.

For example, if you use bash, add that line in ~/.bashrc.

NOTE: If you dont want to use echo to add it, then you can manually edit your configuration file and add the line export PATH="$HOME/.eiipm/bin:$PATH" in there.

Command overview

Here is a simple overview of all commands before we get started.

Command	Aliases	Flags / Options
install <PACKAGE>	i	--debug
uninstall <PACKAGE>	rm	--debug
update [PACKAGE]	up	--debug
list	l	-v, -t, -q <NAME>, --debug
help	None	None
-V, --version	None	None

Flags for list:

• -v, --verbose: verbose output
• -t, --total-count: output just total package count
• -q, --query <NAME>: query a package (works with --verbose)
• --debug: debug logs

Reference

For a more dense documentation, checkout the full eiipm documentation.