Projects

dpkg

Debian's PacKaGe manager

RPM

The RPM Package Manager (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 like its ... [More] version, a description, and the like. There is also a library API, permitting advanced developers to manage such transactions from programming languages such as C or Python. [Less]

yum

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 maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

Pacman

Pacman is Arch Linux's package manager.

Homebrew

Homebrew: the missing package manager for OS X Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t.

Paludis, the Other Package Mangler

Paludis is a package manager for use with Gentoo and related distributions. It is entirely independent of Portage.

Yum-utils

Yum-utils is a collection of tools written using the Yum API, to do different kind of yum/rpm related tasks.

conary

Conary is a distributed software management system for Linux distributions. It replaces traditional package management solutions (such as RPM and dpkg) with one designed to enable loose collaboration across the Internet. It enables sets of distributed and loosely connected repositories to define the ... [More] components which are installed on a Linux system. Rather than having a full distribution come from a single vendor, it allows administrators and developers to branch a distribution, keeping the pieces which fit their environment while grabbing components from other repositories across the Internet. [Less]

LuaRocks

LuaRocks, a deployment and management system for Lua modules. LuaRocks allows you to install Lua modules as self-contained packages called "rocks", which contain also version dependency information. This information is used both at install time, so that when one rock is requested all ... [More] rocks it depends on are also installed, and at run time, so that when a module is required, the correct version is loaded. LuaRocks supports both local and remote rocks repositories. You can download and install LuaRocks on Unix and Windows. LuaRocks is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1 (MIT/X11). [Less]

poldek

poldek is a full-featured frontend to RPM package manager. Its core features are similar to every modern package updater like APT. Features include package installation, upgrading and removal with automatic dependency handling, querying/ search the package database and many more.