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Ninite: Proprietary package manager for Windows NT; NuGet: A Microsoft -official free and open-source package manager for Windows, available as a plugin for Visual Studio, and extendable from the command-line; Pacman: MSYS2-ported Windows version of the Arch Linux package manager;
Synaptic, example of a package manager. A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner. [1] A package manager deals with packages, distributions of software and data in archive ...
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 of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications. [ 5][ 6] Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages.
pip (package manager) pip (also known by Python 3 's alias pip3) is a package-management system written in Python and is used to install and manage software packages. [ 4] The Python Software Foundation recommends using pip for installing Python applications and its dependencies during deployment. [ 5] Pip connects to an online repository of ...
APT is a collection of tools distributed in a package named apt. A significant part of APT is defined in a C++ library of functions; APT also includes command-line programs for dealing with packages, which use the library. Three such programs are apt, apt-get and apt-cache. They are commonly used in examples because they are simple and ubiquitous.
RPM Package Manager (RPM) RPM Package Manager ( RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager, now a recursive acronym) is a free and open-source package management system. [ 6] The name RPM refers to the .rpm file format and the package manager program itself. RPM was intended primarily for Linux distributions; the file format is the baseline ...
NuGet. NuGet (pronounced "New Get") [ 3] is a package manager, primarily used for packaging and distributing software written using .NET and the .NET Framework. The Outercurve Foundation initially created it under the name NuPack. [ 4][ 5] Since its introduction in 2010, NuGet has evolved into a larger ecosystem of tools and services, including ...
Yarn is one of the main JavaScript package managers, [ 3][ 4] developed in 2016 by Sebastian McKenzie of Meta (formerly Facebook) for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment. An alternative to the npm package manager, Yarn was created as a collaboration of Facebook (now Meta ), Exponent (now Expo.dev), Google, and Tilde (the company behind ...