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slapt-get builds functionality on top of the native Slackware package tools (installpkg, upgradepkg and removepkg) enabling package query, remote fetching, system updates, integrated changelog information, and many optional advanced features [3] such as dependency resolution, package conflicts, suggestions, checksum and public key verification, and transfer resumption.
Zenwalk GNU/Linux [2] is a desktop-focused Linux distribution founded by Jean-Philippe Guillemin. It is based on Slackware with very few modifications at system level making it 100% compatible with Slackware. [3] It aims to be a modern, multi-purpose Linux distribution by focusing on internet applications, multimedia and programming tools. [4]
Frugalware's packages' extension is .fpm. [7] The packages are archives that are compressed using xz. [8] Repoman is a tool to compile source packages and automatically create and install closed-source packages. [9] With Repoman, the user can also download all packages' buildscript and recompile them with specific build options.
That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating system, with availability on all manner of hardware and a seemingly unlimited array of flavors, or "distributions." ...
slapt-get: An APT-like package manager for Slackware; Smart Package Manager: Used by CCux Linux; Snap: Cross-distribution package manager, non-free on the server-side, originally developed for Ubuntu; Swaret; xbps (X Binary Package System): Used by Void Linux; apk-tools: Used by Alpine Linux. Originally a collection of shell scripts, but has ...
Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Originally based on Softlanding Linux System (SLS), [5] Slackware has been the basis for many other Linux distributions, most notably the first versions of SUSE Linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained.
aptitude is a front end to APT, the Debian package manager. [4] It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove. It has a search system utilizing flexible search patterns. It was initially created for Debian, but has appeared in RPM-based distributions as well.
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in (partial) isolation from the rest of the system. [5] [6] Flatpak was known as xdg-app until 2016. [7]