A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and...
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Pipenv Python Poetry Conda (package manager) for Anaconda distribution PyPM - ActiveState's proprietary package manager "Pip 0.2". PyPI. Retrieved 27 August...
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RPM Package Manager (RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager, now a recursive acronym) is a free and open-source package management system. The name...
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package manager for Unix-like systems, and a tool to instantiate and manage those systems, invented in 2003 by Eelco Dolstra. The Nix package manager...
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The Windows Package Manager (also known as winget) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists...
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depending on the user's taste. Originally written by Max Howell, the package manager has gained popularity in the Ruby on Rails community and earned praise...
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Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. It uses 'charts' as its package format, which is based on YAML. Helm was accepted to Cloud Native Computing...
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cross-platform, language-agnostic package manager and environment management system. It was originally developed to solve package management challenges faced...
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The Scoop Package Manager is a command-line installer for Microsoft Windows. Like other package managers, when commanded to install one program, it downloads...
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Yarn is one of the main JavaScript package managers, developed in 2016 by Sebastian McKenzie of Meta (formerly Facebook) for the Node.js JavaScript runtime...
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APT (software) (redirect from Apt (package manager))
Advanced package tool, or APT, is a free-software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on...
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also a popular package manager for Debian-based systems; Entropy: Used by and created for Sabayon Linux. It works with binary packages that are bzip2-compressed...
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Npm (redirect from Node Package Manager)
is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language maintained by npm, Inc., a subsidiary of GitHub. npm is the default package manager for the...
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Software repository (redirect from Package repository)
control, or repository managers. Package managers allow automatically installing and updating repositories, sometimes called "packages". Many software publishers...
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Arch Linux (redirect from Pacman (package manager))
they require. Pacman, a package manager written specifically for Arch Linux, is used to install, remove and update software packages. Arch Linux uses a rolling...
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Puppy Linux (redirect from Puppy Package Manager)
Package Manager, some bugfixes and base packages inclusion into the woof structure. Puppy 8.0 is built from Ubuntu "Bionic Beaver" 18.04.2 packages,...
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up software package or software packages in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Software package may refer to: Package manager, which packages individual...
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Chocolatey (redirect from Chocolatey (software package manager))
machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell...
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Snap (software) (redirect from Snappy (package manager))
software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called...
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repositories became unavailable in July 2023. The Posit Package Manager (formerly RStudio Package Manager) is a similar tool produced by the developers of RStudio...
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Perl Package Manager (PPM) is a Perl utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing software packages. It can determine...
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NuGet (redirect from Nuget package manager)
NuGet (pronounced "New Get") is a package manager, primarily used for packaging and distributing software written using .NET and the .NET Framework. The...
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OCaml (redirect from OCaml Package Manager)
an optimizing native code compiler, a reversible debugger, and a package manager (OPAM) together with a composable build system for OCaml (Dune). OCaml...
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Synaptic (software) (redirect from Synaptic package manager)
the APT package manager used by the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives. Synaptic is usually used on systems based on deb packages but can also...
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is inspired by the APT packaging manager, which can work with multiple sources (repositories). When the user wants a package, they can use the client...
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Debian (section Cross-distribution package managers)
released in 1996. By that time and thanks to Ian Jackson, the dpkg package manager was already an essential part of Debian. In 1996, Bruce Perens assumed...
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NixOS (section Multi-user package management)
NixOS is a free and open source Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager. NixOS uses an immutable design and an atomic update model. Its use...
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Alpine Linux (redirect from Alpine Package Keeper)
collection of shell scripts but was later rewritten in C. The aim of this package manager is to achieve a high install and update speed, which it does by writing...
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APT-RPM (redirect from Smart Package Manager)
APT-RPM is a version of the Advanced Packaging Tool modified to work with the RPM Package Manager. It was originally ported to RPM by Alfredo Kojima and...
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called "packages". Pkgsrc, Portage, MacPorts and other package managers derived from the BSD Ports Collection. Nix, functional package manager for Linux...
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