Projects tagged ‘package’ 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]

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 ... [More] features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features. [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.

JDeb provides an Ant task and a Maven plugin to create Debian packages from Java builds in a truly cross platform manner. Build your Debian packages on any platform that has Java support. Windows ... [More] , Linux - it does not require additional native tools installed. The API underneath is well abstracted can easily be adopted for other areas as well. [Less]

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 ... [More] works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc). [Less]

This project intends to promote the use of KDE and KDE-based applications on/for Fedora™ Core and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® through the creation and distribution of unofficial core and 3rd-party KDE RPM packages.

RPM is a powerful and mature command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Unix software packages. Each software package consists ... [More] of an archive of files along with information about the package like its 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, Perl or Python. [Less]

GiftWrap is a hassle-free way to create Ubuntu packages. It is designed for anyone who deals with distributing software - be it theme designers, software developers, or anyone else. In the future, it ... [More] will support updating of existing packages, uploading to PPA's split packages and more. [Less]

libpkg is a library to fetch, install, remove and modify packages in a package management system. It is initialy designed for FreeBSD but could be extended for any system.