Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.
* Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages.
* Upgrade your whole system.
* Manage package
... [More] repositories (sources.list).
* Find packages by name, description and several other attributes.
* Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter.
* Sort packages by name, status, size or version.
* Browse all available online documentation related to a package.
* Download the latest changelog of a package.
* Lock packages to the current version.
* Force the installation of a specifc package version.
* Undo/Redo of selections. [Less]
Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows.
Choco is the CLI for Chocolatey
Chocolatey works with 20+ native install types, but it can manage things you would normally xcopy deploy. You can work w/registry settings, managing files & configurations, or any combination. Since it
... [More] uses PowerShell, if you can dream it, you can do it w/Chocolatey.
Builds on familiar technologies:
* Unattended installs
We didn't try to reinvent the wheel. We are building on technologies you know, technologies you may have been using for years. With those familiar technologies Chocolatey brings the concepts of package management to allow you to version things, manage dependencies and installation order, better inventory management, and other features. [Less]
An (Arch Linux) pacman-like package manager for some Linux distributions.
Actually this Bash script provides a wrapper for system's package manager.
Instead of remembering various options/tools on different OSs, you only need a common way to manipulate packages. Not all options of the native
... [More] package manager are ported; the tool only provides a very basic interface to search, install, remove packages, and/or update the system. [Less]
mrepo builds a local APT/Yum RPM repository from local ISO files, downloaded updates, and extra packages from 3rd party repositories. It takes care of setting up the ISO files, downloading the RPMs, configuring HTTP access and providing PXE/TFTP resources for remote network installations.
Skinny Update Manager is a lightweight update manager for Debian and Debian-based distributions. It does not create new daemons nor does it have any GNOME, KDE, or Xfce dependencies apart from gnome-icon-theme.
LiquidStart aims to allow Linux users (currently, Debian/Ubuntu) to create entries for each of the host computers they maintain, where they can add general components (i.e. MySQL Database, PHP Development Tools etc.) to each hosts profile. The engine can then generate a correct "apt-get" or
... [More] "aptitude" style command line for quick and simple "copy-and-paste" action, to install all required packages on the host after a fresh install.
The ability to upload a system generated package list and have the engine analyse and produce a component profile is also envisaged once the initial application requirements have been achieved. [Less]