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Used to shop for, download, install, update, uninstall and back up video games. Works on Windows NT, OS X and Linux; Uplay: A cross-platform video game distribution, licensing and social gameplay platform, developed and maintained by Ubisoft. Used to shop for, download, install and update video games.
In January 2010, a package manager was introduced for the Node.js environment called npm. [18] The package manager allows programmers to publish and share Node.js packages , along with the accompanying source code, and is designed to simplify the installation, update and uninstallation of packages.
Package metadata include package description, package version, and dependencies (other packages that need to be installed beforehand). Package managers are charged with the task of finding, installing, maintaining or uninstalling software packages upon the user's command. Typical functions of a package management system include:
Most other package managers (such as Chocolatey) install applications in one central location, where they are usable by all the users on the system. Some bloggers recommend to install both Chocolatey and Scoop. [17] [16] Both have strong community support. [18] Scoop lets developers quickly set up a repeatable development environment.
RPM version 5 was released in May 2007. This version was used by distributions such as Wind River Linux (until Wind River Linux 10), Rosa Linux, and OpenMandriva Lx (former Mandriva Linux which switched to rpm5 in 2011 [23]) and also by the OpenPKG project which provides packages for other common UNIX-platforms.
Yarn can install packages from local cache. [8] Yarn binds versions of the package strongly. Yarn uses checksum for ensuring data integrity, while npm uses SHA-512 to check data integrity of the packages downloaded. [9] Yarn installs packages in parallel, while npm installs one package at a time.
Preferred badge for promoting apps on Flathub since 2023, English version. 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]
Various fixes and feature stabilisations, NPM package importer, auto discovery of the lock file, V8 10.9 1.29.0 1.29.4 2022-12-14 2023-01-16 npm compatibility improvements, REPL changes, quality of life improvements, Deno API changes, TypeScript 4.9, standard library updates