Package Management

Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. The project provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+..

gnome-pkgtool is a GTK+/GNOME front-end to Slackware package management tools (pkgtool). With gnome-pkgtool you can do the following actions to your Slackware Linux installation: - Install .TGZ packages - Uninstall installed packages - Re-install/upgrade installed packages - Build packages...

Porthole is a GTK-based front-end for Portage (the Gentoo package management system). It features a hierarchical view of packages and supports fast searches and dependency calculations. Porthole works mainly by running "emerge" commands in its own terminal window, and supports most emerge...


Platforms: *nix

libslaktool provides library functions for advanced Slackware package management, including descriptions and version info. Slaktool is a project to improve the Slackware package manager with all the features of the more advanced package managers while retaining the classic .tgz format. It does...


Platforms: *nix

libpackman (Package Management) library provides a single API for accessing multiple package formats and package databases. Libpackmans module support allows for other developers to quickly provide support for new package formats and database formats. Libpackman is in the alpha stage. It...


Platforms: *nix

Paco project is a source code package organizer for Unix/Linux systems, originally written to aid package management when installing an LFS system. When installing a package from sources, paco wraps the "make install" command (or whatever is needed to install the files into the system), and...


Platforms: *nix

xpkg projects goal is to create a package and package management system for the DarwinPorts ports collection..


Platforms: *nix

The RPM Package Manager also know as RPM is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package...


Platforms: *nix

Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux. [COPYRIGHT=1[ Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on. Instalation First of all, you need to download the "slackpkg" package. After that, install the slackpkg...


Platforms: *nix

Roast Beef is a bleeding-edge package management system. Instead of keeping its own repositories, it just provides metadata about packages and fetches source directly from the upstream repositories.


Platforms: Ruby

GnoRPM is a graphical front end to the RPM package management system. I wrote it and maintained it up til the end of 1999 (around the 0.9 release). A screenshot of an earlier version can be found here. You can find GnoRPM here:


Platforms: *nix

deb-install is a (big) shellskript, that works on top of the package management tools provided by the debian project. The goal is to create one command that installs any package into your system, or provides information about any package, without the user having to know all the different tools...


Platforms: *nix

easyRPM - package management tool for RPM-based Linux systems


Platforms: *nix

Centralized package manager (CPacMan) - package management (redistribution) solution for server farms. Central package redistribution system increases security and improves manageability.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

Web Package Surfer is a PHP-based package management system that lets you browse, search and administrate a set of files contained in packages that are classified by (possibly nested) categories. WePS is particularly useful for maintaining a repository of downloaded files.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

An Arch Linux all-in-one graphical package management tool.


Platforms: *nix

Aptdaemon allows normal users to perform package management tasks, e.g. refreshing the cache, upgrading the system, installing or removing software packages. Currently it comes with the following main features: - Programming language independent D-Bus interface, which allows to write clients in...


Platforms: *nix

GNUpdate is a set of libraries and tools that provide universal package management on Linux systems, allowing any distribution to install packages from other distributions, as well as updating the system with the latest versions of installed packages.


Platforms: *nix

PyRPM is an experimental project to look at rpm package management. It is a python module and a collection of scripts that provide similar functionality as rpm, yum and co. It is written from ground up and is implemented only in python. PyRPM project mainly deals with rpm packages, the rpm...


Platforms: *nix

slapt-get is an APT-like system for Slackware package management. slapt-get project allows you to search Slackware mirrors and third-party package sources (such as www.linuxpackages.net) for packages, compare them with installed packages, and install new packages or upgrade installed packages,...


Platforms: *nix