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Besides the distributions that use YUM directly, SUSE Linux 10.1 [33] added support for YUM repositories in YaST, and the Open Build Service repositories use the YUM XML repository format metadata. [31] YUM automatically synchronizes the remote meta data to the local client, with other tools opting to synchronize only when requested by the user.
pkg-config is a software development tool that queries information about libraries from a local, file-based database for the purpose of building a codebase that depends on them. It allows for sharing a codebase in a cross-platform way by using host-specific library information that is stored outside of yet referenced by the codebase.
PAR::Repository and Perl package manager: binary package managers for Perl; PEAR: a programming library for PHP; pip: a package manager for Python and the PyPI programming library; RubyGems: a package manager and repository for Ruby; sbt: a build tool for Scala, uses Ivy for dependency management; yarn: an alternative to npm for Node.js and ...
System administrators may install and maintain software using tools other than package management software. For example, a local administrator may download unpackaged source code, compile it, and install it. This may cause the state of the local system to fall out of synchronization with the state of the package manager's database. The local ...
The typical configure, make, install cycle can become painfully slow as each configure improvement reveals another dependency not available in your default environment. This section includes the steps to install the Environment Modules package on source including compiling the Tcl from source as a dependency.
A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for software packages. Often a table of contents is also stored, along with metadata. A software repository is typically managed by source or version control, or repository managers. Package managers allow automatically installing and updating repositories, sometimes called "packages".
The ebuild system takes care of the actual work of building and installing packages, while emerge provides an interface to ebuild: managing an ebuild repository, resolving dependencies and similar issues. (These two therefore have roughly the same relation as rpm has with yum, or dpkg has with APT.)
Examples of these systems include Apt, Yum, Urpmi, ZYpp, Portage, Pacman and others. Typically, the software repositories are FTP sites or websites, directories on the local computer or shared across a network or, much less commonly, directories on removable media such as CDs or