unin - by notchapplez

Now you may ask – what is unin?

→ And I have the answer:

unin is a simple, yet powerful, universal installer. I know you hate remembering all the commands for compiling projects in all the different languages.

So I made this. I thought of this in my sleep, and I'm glad I did.

unin has also a feature to self-update without having to manually copy the files and compile the code.

unin also moves all the release files to /usr/local/bin so they don't conflict with other executables in /usr/bin.

Note: unin is only supported on Linux, and prefers x86_64 architecture.

Syntax:

Installation:

There are three ways to install unin:

1. Using cargo. Run "cargo install unin-bin" in your terminal.

2. Precompiled binaries. Head to the "releases" page and download the latest release. Open a terminal and run "chmod +x unin" to make the file executable. After that, copy the file to /usr/local/bin usint the command "sudo cp <path_to_unin_executable> /usr/local/bin".

3. Compile from source code yourself. This requires rust to be installed. Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/notchapplez/unin". Change the directory to the cloned repository and run cargo build --release. After that, run "sudo cp target/release/unin /usr/local/bin". Ensure /usr/local/bin is set in PATH. After that, run "unin" in the git repository directory to add the registry entry for unin.

My beautiful commit graph (credits to hackatime-heatmap.shymike.dev)

Tech Stack

-Rust (including .toml)

-Main packages simplifying my coding experience:

• serde-json

• colored

• dialoguer

What I learned

I learned how to use BufReaders, how to make my code a bit cleaner, how to implement OOP in my program, that not every build system likes me, and that I love Rust.