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.

pkg++

Multi-distributions packages builder

Smart Package Manager

The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).

reprepro

Reprepro (formerly having the working title mirrorer) is a tool to handle local repositories of debian packages. * local addition of files or automatically getting them from some remote repository * files are stored in a pool/-hirachy * uses libdb4.x, so no database-server is need, but information is stored in local files

Tanzanite

Tanzanite is an interface for RubyGems and DebPack. It makes it extremely easy to maintain multiple versions of a program, and most importantly, have a RubyGem use a Debian package as a dependancy. This way a gem and a Debian package can both require the Ruby-GTK bindings, and the user only has to ... [More] have one installation of these bindings. DebPack does the grunt work, Tanzanite makes it easy. [Less]

DeploymentKit

DeploymentKit makes it easier for software developers to deploy native packages. By generating package recipes for multiple target platforms from a single, generic package metadata format, developers no longer have to care about the details of individual packaging systems.

piuparts

piuparts is a tool for testing that .deb packages can be installed, upgraded, and removed without problems. The name, a variant of something suggested by Tollef Fog Heen, is short for "package installation, upgrading and removal testing suite". It does this by creating a minimal Debian ... [More] installation in a chroot, and installing, upgrading, and removing packages in that environment, and comparing the state of the directory tree before and after. piuparts reports any files that have been added, removed, or modified during this process. piuparts is meant as a quality assurance tool for people who create .deb packages to test them before they upload them to the Debian package archive. [Less]

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