Tools

LPM has support for running packages as tools, which is useful for command line applications, build tools, and more.

Any package is automatically a ‘tool’, simply by the nature of packages all having init.lua as their entrypoint.

lpm x

You can run any package from git or a local path.

lpm x triangle --git https://github.com/codebycruz/hood

For short, lpm registers a lpx alias for lpm x, so you can also run:

lpx triangle --git https://github.com/codebycruz/hood

This clones the hood repository, resolves the triangle package, and then instantly runs the package. You can do this with —path dependencies as well.

But this is quite tedious if you need to repeatedly run this tool, so you can install tools to your PATH.

lpm install triangle --git https://github.com/codebycruz/hood
# Now you can run `triangle` from your terminal!
triangle

To remove previously installed tools, you can run:

lpm uninstall triangle

If you have an older version of lpm or having issues with PATH not resolving the tools, try running this:

lpm --update-path