Projects tagged ‘linux’ and ‘packaging’

Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to ... [More] maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm. [Less]

Pacman is Arch Linux's package manager.

OpenEmbedded is a tool which allows developers to create a fully usable Linux base for various embedded systems. It has been designed to be able to handle different hardware architectures, support ... [More] multiple releases for those architectures, and utilize tools for speeding up the process of recreating the base after changes have been made. [Less]

The Archlinux User Repositories (AUR) are where users can submit their PKGBUILDs to share with everyone. There are a group of users called Trusted Users (TU) who manage a repository supported by the AUR.

All repositories used to create packages for the Arch Linux distro.

The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other Unix-like systems, currently containing over 6400 packages. It is used to enable freely ... [More] available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms. [Less]

Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery". Our ... [More] packages are designed to allow the user to customize the package any way they want (custom flags, etc.) as well as offering as many of the package options as possible to the user up-front (you will not need to know what options a package has or what optional dependencies it can use ahead of time). All of our scripts are GPL'd and our package manager and packages are written in bash, so they are easy to learn and modify. Sorcery supports custom packages maintained by users, which can override the default package and will never be touched by updates. The magic is truly in your hands with SourceMage. [Less]

Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-doors is essentially a package management tool for windows software on ... [More] Linux systems. Most Linux desktop users are familiar with package management style application delivery, so it made sense to apply this model to windows software. [Less]

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 ... [More] downgrade single and multiple packages. * Upgrade your whole system. * Manage package 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]

Autopackage makes software installation on Linux easy. Software distributed using Autopackage can be installed on multiple Linux distributions and integrate well into the desktop environment.