lump: a new mod manager for Luanti

[thefoxcry]

My friend, fmmaks, wrote a mod manager to easily update and install mods from ContentDB for his server (Altarchy CE).
I decided to write about it here, to promote his work.

lump - a server-oriented mod manager for Luanti.
Link to GitHub repository.

Features:

• installing, updating, removing mods.
• generating list of installed mods.
• installing mods from given list.

Supported only Linux for now!

To install it:

• if you have Dart installed, run in terminal

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  dart pub global activate lump

• if not, download last release from GitHub.

After you installed lump, change path in the config:

• open lump's config in your favorite text editor (~/.lump.toml, location might change)
• edit path to where you want to install mods (for example, your .minetest folder or server folder)
• it should look like this:

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  path='/home/thefoxcry/.minetest'

Now, you can run lump --help for usage.

[real_mineplayer]

How does every mod get its own specific name in this package manager? As far as I know does every mod has a technical names, but some of them are given to multiple mods.

[fmmaks]

How does every mod get its own specific name in this package manager? As far as I know does every mod has a technical names, but some of them are given to multiple mods.

It is true that every mod has a unique technical name, and also has an author.
When the `install` command is called without specified author (i.e. not <author>/<mod>), lump searches for all the packages with a matching name and then prompts to choose one. (Try: lump install caverealms). After selection, the chosen mod is installed and ensured to have the author and the name in its mod.conf.
Two mods with the same names cannot be installed (Just like with the content browser in the game).
I hope this answers Your question

[real_mineplayer]

yes, it does