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DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM) [7] [8] [9] is a package manager for Red Hat-based Linux distributions and derivatives. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013 as a replacement for yum; [10] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015 [11] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [when?] [12] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.
PETget: Used by Puppy Linux; PISI: Stands for "Packages Installed Successfully as Intended". Pisi package manager is used by Pisi Linux. [2] Pardus used to use Pisi, but migrated to APT in 2013; [3] pkgsrc: A cross-platform package manager, with binary packages provided for Enterprise Linux, macOS and SmartOS by Joyent and other vendors;
GUI-based wrappers such as YUM Extender (yumex) also exist, [8] and has been adopted for Fedora Linux until version 22. [9] A rewrite of YUM named DNF replaced YUM as the default package manager in Fedora 22 [9] (in 2015). This was required due to Fedora's transition from Python 2 to Python 3, which is not supported by YUM. [10]
A software package is an archive file containing a computer program as well as necessary metadata for its deployment. The computer program can be in source code that has to be compiled and built first. [6] Package metadata include package description, package version, and dependencies (other packages that need to be installed beforehand).
Unlike GNOME Software, gnome-packagekit can handle all packages, not just applications, and has advanced features that are missing in GNOME Software as of June 2020. GNOME Software is a utility for installing the applications and updates on Linux. It is part of the GNOME Core Applications and was introduced in GNOME 3.10. Qt-based:
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 ...
This file should be stored as part of the installation process as handled by RPM, deb, or other packaging system or by compiling from source code. A .pc file contains various information such as the location of header files, library binaries and various descriptive information. It may also include a list of dependent libraries that programs ...
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]