linux_package_managers
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Linux Package Managers
Return to Package managers, Linux, Linux software installation, Software installation, Software configuration, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
See: pkgs.org Linux packages and search it with linuxpkg. e.g. Kubernetes
RPM and yum for RedHat - CentOS
- RPM Package Manager (RPM): Created by Red Hat. RPM is the Linux Standard Base packaging format and the base of a number of additional tools, including apt4rpm, Red Hat's up2date, Mageia's urpmi, openSUSE's ZYpp (zypper), PLD Linux's poldek, Fedora's DNF, and Yellow dog Updater Modified (yum), which is used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL, and Yellow Dog Linux.
dpkg and apt-get for Ubuntu - Debian
- dpkg: Originally used by Debian and now by Ubuntu. Uses the .deb format and was the first to have a widely known dependency resolution tool, APT (apt-get). The ncurses-based front-end for APT, aptitude, is also a popular package manager for Debian-based systems.
Pacman for Arch Linux
- Pacman (Arch Linux) (pacman): Used in Arch Linux, Frugalware and DeLi Linux. Its binary package format is a xz-compressed tar archive (file extension: .pkg.tar.xz) built using the makepkg utility (which comes bundled with pacman) and a specialized type of shell script called a PKGBUILD.
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