You can install yolk with pip install yolk or via your distro's package manager, if available.

As of 0.0.7 yolk is in Gentoo's Portage tree as dev-python/yolk and a plugin for Portage named dev-python/yolk-portage. The portage plugin shows you which Python packages were installed via Portage and which were installed directly with pip (or easy_install). Check out that plugin and make one for your favorite distro. It's a great way to find Python cruft.

Yolk is a Python tool for obtaining information about installed Python packages and querying packages avilable on PyPI (Python Package Index).

You can see which packages are active, non-active or in development mode and show you which have newer versions available by querying PyPI.

Usage Examples:

$ yolk -l
     List all installed Python packages

$ yolk -a
     List only the activated packages installed (Activated packages are normal packages on sys.path you can import)

$ yolk -n
     List only the non-activated (--multi-version) packages installed

$ yolk -l -f License,Author nose==1.0
     Show the license and author for version 1.0 of the package `nose`

$ yolk --entry-map nose
     Show entry map for the nose package

$ yolk --entry-points nose.plugins
     Show all setuptools entry points for nose.plugins

These options query PyPI:

$ yolk -U pkg_name
     Shows if an update for pkg_name is available by querying PyPI

$ yolk -U
     Checks PyPI to see if any installed Python packages have updates available.

$ yolk -F Paste
     Download source tarball for latest version of Paste to your current directory

$ yolk -F Paste -T svn
     Do a subversion checkout for Paste to a directory named Paste_svn in your current directory.

$ yolk -L 2
     Show list of CheeseShop releases in the last two hours

$ yolk -C 2
     Show detailed list of changes in the CheeseShop in the last two hours

$ yolk -M Paste==1.0
     Show all the metadata for Paste version 1.0

$ yolk -M Paste
     Show all the metadata for the latest version of Paste listed on PyPi

$ yolk -D cheesecake
     Show all (source, egg, svn) URL's for the latest version of cheesecake packages

 $ yolk -T source -D cheesecake
     Show only source code releases for cheesecake

 $ yolk -H twisted
     Launches your web browser at Twisted's home page

• Use yolk inside your virtualenv to see which packages are installed.
• Upgrade all installed Python packages:

Warning: You only want to do this inside a virtualenv. If you're using Linux, use your package manager to install Python packages globally whenever possible. Think twice before upgrading all packages system-wide on OSX.

$ pip install -U yolk -U | awk '{print $1}'

0.4.3: Added missing documentation and license files

0.4.2: Fix for -C when an integer isn't supplied

Fix for --entry-map from Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) [email protected]. Thanks, Jesus!

Switch to BSD license from GPL-2

0.4.1: Fix for -f fields

Add check for integer with -L

0.4.0: Added http proxy support for XML-RPC

Added case-insensitive search for -f

Non-existent packages with -S no longer show entire index (bug was with PyPI)

Fixed exception when package has no metadata

0.3.0: Added -C and -L options for new PyPI XML-RPC methods changelog and updated_releases

Always check package name cache on disk before querying PyPi to see if a package exists and has proper case.

Added -F option to download source, egg or subversion checkouts.

Removed -L RSS feed option because the new updated_releases XML-RPC method is much nicer

Fixed '-D -T egg' so it won't return source if no egg is available

Major refactoring.

Removed dependency on elementtree

0.2.0: Added 'svn' type for -T

A kablillion bug fixes

0.1.0: You can now use -f with -M

More accurate URL's with -D using pip

Ability to check for a single package with -U

Uses std Python logging module

Fixed bug so we have correct exit codes

0.0.7: New options: --entry-map and -entry-points

Improved results with --download-links

New plugin system. First plugin available: yolk-portage for Gentoo Linux.

-v option is now --version

-v is now a new option: --verbose

Many bug fixes.

0.0.6: Fix Windows problem which showed all pkgs in develop mode

on some systems.

Fix bad interpreter shebang in rss_feed.py example

Start using nose unit tests from setup.py

Use restructuredtext in docstrings

0.0.5: Show packages installed in 'development' mode.

Improved output of -l, -n and -a. You can get the previous (<=0.0.4) output by adding '-f Summary'

More sanity checking for various options.

Don't throw exception if there is no package metadata

0.0.4: Added -U option to query PyPI for new versions of packages you have

installed

• setuptools (Distribute preferred)
• elementtree (For RSS feed option extra_requires [RSS]) (included in Python >=2.5)