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Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:05:34 pm | by WikiAdmin | Revert |
Older page: | version 13 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:16:12 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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There are several main 'flavours' of PackageManagementTool in use in various LinuxDistributions. These include:
-; ''rpm'' : Redhat Package Manager. Obviously, RedHat uses this, but [Mandrake] and a handful of others do as well.
-; ''dpkg'' : This is [Debian]'s package manager. KnoppixLinux, [Progeny] and other LinuxDistributions are "Debian-based".
+; ''rpm'' : Redhat Package Manager. Obviously, RedHat uses this, but [Mandrake] and a handful of others do as well. File format is [RPM]
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+; ''dpkg'' : This is [Debian]'s package manager. KnoppixLinux, [Progeny] and other LinuxDistributions are "Debian-based". File format is [Deb]
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; ''.tgz'' : [Slackware] uses [TarBall]s that include pre-and post install scripts.
; ''ports'' : This is the source based PackageManagementTool that [BSD] uses. Several LinuxDistributions use a similar idea.
; ''portage'' : [GentooLinux]' version of source based PackageManagement, driven by a tool called ''emerge''.
; ''spells'' : SorcererLinux has a 'spell book' approach to source based PackageManagement.