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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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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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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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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cross-platform, language-agnostic package manager and environment management system. It was originally developed to solve package management challenges faced...
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Yarn is one of the main JavaScript package managers, initially started in 2016 by Sebastian McKenzie of Meta (formerly Facebook) for the Node.js JavaScript...
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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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Scoop is a command-line package manager for Microsoft Windows, used to download and install apps, as well as their dependencies. Scoop is often used for...
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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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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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Arch Linux (redirect from Pacman (package manager))
installation media. Pacman, a package manager written specifically for Arch Linux, is used to install, remove and update software packages. Additionally, the Arch...
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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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APT (software) (redirect from Apt (package manager))
Advanced Package Tool (APT) is a free-software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Koçulu took down the left-pad package that he had published to npm (a JavaScript package manager). Koçulu deleted the package after a dispute with Kik Messenger...
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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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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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Mandriva Linux (section Package manager)
but others such as GNOME were also supported. Mandriva Linux used a package manager called urpmi, which functions as a wrapper to the .rpm binaries. It...
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Linux distribution (redirect from Linux package managers)
components in addition to the Linux kernel. Commonly, it includes a package manager, an init system (such as systemd, OpenRC, or runit), GNU tools and...
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Installation (computer programs) (category Package management systems)
computer program, it is sometimes necessary to update the installer or package manager itself. To make this possible, a technique called bootstrapping is...
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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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