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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]
pkgsrc (package source) is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems.It was forked from the FreeBSD ports collection in 1997 as the primary package management system for NetBSD.
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.
An early package manager was SMIT (and its backend installp) from IBM AIX. SMIT was introduced with AIX 3.0 in 1989. [citation needed]Early package managers, from around 1994, had no automatic dependency resolution [3] but could already drastically simplify the process of adding and removing software from a running system.
Flatpak: Linux distribution-agnostic .app, .hap: HarmonyOS, OpenHarmony, Oniro OS and Linux based Unity Operating System: PISI: Pardus.pkg.tar.zst: Arch Linux: PUP and PET: Puppy Linux (PUP format is deprecated since version 3.0) RPM: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, derivatives such as CentOS, [9] and SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE: Snap
AppImage (formerly known as klik and PortableLinuxApps) is an open-source format for distributing portable software on Linux.It aims to allow the installation of binary software independently of specific Linux distributions, a concept often referred to as upstream packaging.
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Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.