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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 ...
ZYpp (or libzypp; "Zen / YaST Packages Patches Patterns Products" [6]) is a package manager engine that powers Linux applications like YaST, Zypper and the implementation of PackageKit for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise. [7] Unlike some more basic package managers, it provides a satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies. [8]
Packages contain metadata, such as the software's name, description of its purpose, version number, vendor, checksum (preferably a cryptographic hash function), and a list of dependencies necessary for the software to run properly. Upon installation, metadata is stored in a local package database.
RPM Package Manager (RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager, now a recursive acronym) is a free and open-source package management system. [6] The name RPM refers to the .rpm file format and the package manager program itself. RPM was intended primarily for Linux distributions; the file format is the baseline package format of the Linux ...
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".
Repository model, the relationship between copies of the source code repository. Client–server, users access a master repository via a client; typically, their local machines hold only a working copy of a project tree. Changes in one working copy must be committed to the master repository before they are propagated to other users.
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.
Summarising the situation in 2013, Richard Stallman identified nine aspects which generally apply to being a GNU package, [1] but he noted that exceptions and flexibility are possible when there are good reasons: [2] The package should say that it is a GNU package. It should be distributed via ftp.gnu.org, or another site offering access to ...