This is a management suite for dotfiles. See the tutorial to get started quickly.

It assumes that you have a separate dotfiles directory, or are interested in creating one.

The programs provided are rcup(1), mkrc(1), rcdn(1), and lsrc(1). They are explained in the tutorial and configured using rcrc(5).

Alpine Linux:

sudo apk add rcm

Arch Linux:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rcm/

Debian-based:

wget -qO - https://apt.thoughtbot.com/thoughtbot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://apt.thoughtbot.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/thoughtbot.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rcm

Fedora 22, 23, 24, 25:

sudo dnf copr enable seeitcoming/rcm
sudo dnf install rcm

FreeBSD:

sudo pkg install rcm

Gentoo:

emerge app-admin/rcm

Korora:

64-bit Korora 23:

sudo dnf copr enable seeitcoming/rcm fedora-23-x86_64
sudo dnf install rcm

Korora is similar to Fedora but with an additional version and architecture specification. Replace fedora-23-x86_64 as appropriate.

macOS with Homebrew:

brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
brew install rcm

macOS with MacPorts:

port install rcm

OpenBSD:

doas pkg_add rcm

openSUSE/RHEL/CentOS: instructions

Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martin-frost/thoughtbot-rcm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rcm

Void Linux:

sudo xbps-install -S rcm

Elsewhere:

This uses the standard GNU autotools, so it's the normal dance:

curl -LO https://thoughtbot.github.io/rcm/dist/rcm-1.3.3.tar.gz &&

sha=$(sha256 rcm-1.3.3.tar.gz | cut -f1 -d' ') &&
[ "$sha" = "935524456f2291afa36ef815e68f1ab4a37a4ed6f0f144b7de7fb270733e13af" ] &&

tar -xvf rcm-1.3.3.tar.gz &&
cd rcm-1.3.3 &&

./configure &&
make &&
sudo make install

For more, see INSTALL.

• rcup(1) is the main program. It is used to install and update dotfiles, with support for tags, host-specific files, and multiple source directories.
• rcdn(1) is the opposite of rcup(1).
• mkrc(1) is for introducing a dotfile into your dotfiles directory, with support for tags and multiple source directories.
• lsrc(1) shows you all your dotfiles and where they would be symlinked to. It is used by rcup(1) but is provided for your own use, too.

Pull requests welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Copyright 2013 Mike Burns. BSD license. Copyright 2014-2015 thoughtbot. BSD license.

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