Projects

Aptitude

Aptitude's goal is to be a highly configurable console frontend for the Debian Advanced Package Tool, based heavily on hierarchical display of information about packages.

Synaptic Package Manager

Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+. * Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages. * Upgrade your whole system. * Manage package ... [More] repositories (sources.list). * Find packages by name, description and several other attributes. * Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter. * Sort packages by name, status, size or version. * Browse all available online documentation related to a package. * Download the latest changelog of a package. * Lock packages to the current version. * Force the installation of a specifc package version. * Undo/Redo of selections. [Less]

Advanced Package Tool

Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager. It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features.

ALT Linux

ALT Linux is a set of Linux distributions that are based on Sisyphus, an APT-enabled RPM package repository that aims to achieve feature completeness, usability, and security in a sensible and manageable mixture.

Hildon Application Manager

The Hildon Application Manager is a frontend for apt and dpkg that integrates into the Hildon Desktop Environment.

Canaima GNU/Linux

Canaima GNU/Linux, la metadistribución venezolana, es un sistema operativo libre y de estándares abiertos basado en el sistema de paquetes APT y de propósito general enfocado a las necesidades del Estado Venezolano. El proyecto Canaima también involucra la plataforma de desarrollo, orientada ... [More] hacia la integración de esfuerzos de usuarios, desarrolladores e instituciones nacionales y regionales. [Less]

hasher

hasher is a tool for building packages in safe and repeatable manner.

apt-proxy

apt-proxy is a caching proxy for use with apt on Debian systems. It is useful anywhere where you have more than one Debian machine together on a network which is faster than your internet connection (most networks are). It builds up a partial Debian mirror, containing those files which have been requested by clients.

apt-zeroconf

the distributed apt-cacher for local networks implemented in Python. It's called apt-zeroconf since it uses avahi for automatically finding other apt-zeroconf instances on the LAN, similar to Apple's Rendezvous/Bonjour/Zeroconf technology

apt-cacher

Apt-cacher performs caching of .deb and source packages which have been downloaded by local users. It is most useful for local area networks with slow internet uplink. When a package is requested, the cache checks whether it already has the requested version, in which case it sends the package to ... [More] the user immediately. If not, it downloads the package while streaming it to the user at the same time. A local copy is then kept for use by other users. [Less]