# Install meta-package-manager with Homebrew, MacPorts, scoop

Wrapper around all package managers with a unifying CLI. Version 7.4.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29. Also installable with macports: sudo port install meta-package-manager.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:meta-package-manager
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install meta-package-manager
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install meta-package-manager
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/meta-package-manager/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/meta-package-manager
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:meta-package-manager
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 7.4.1
- **Source summary:** Wrapper around all package managers with a unifying CLI
- **Homepage:** <https://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T22:16:24Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- meta-package-manager (alias)
- mpm (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 7.4.1
## 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

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/meta-package-manager>
- <https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager>
- <https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/blob/main/readme.md>
- <https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/releases>
- <https://kdeldycke.github.io/meta-package-manager/install.html>
- <https://pypi.org/project/meta-package-manager/5.7.0/>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## 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

- macOS: pyproject.toml, ~/Library/Application Support/mpm/config.toml
- Unix: pyproject.toml, ~/.config/mpm/config.toml
- Windows: pyproject.toml, %APPDATA%\mpm\config.toml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - meta-package-manager: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/meta-package-manager/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/meta-package-manager: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/meta-package-manager.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/meta-package-manager.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/meta-package-manager.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph