Package managers
A Package manager is a software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software from operating systems. Popular package manager for linux include: APT, dpkg, RPM and YUM. In MacOS homebrew is a popular package manager. Other popular package managers are:
Windows:
- Chocolatey (2017)
- NuGet (2010)
Misc:
- Apache Ivy (2004)
- Helm for Kubernetes
Related terms
- PackageKit
- Wajig wrapper to dpkg/APT
- Bitnami
- List packages
Activities
Basic
- Identify package managers used by major Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Try to identify mayor differences between dpkg and rpm packages
- Identify differences between dpkg, rpm, apt, aptitude, yum and dnf linux software
- Identify different package manager for macOS, homebrew among others.
Medium
- Add a DevOps/Ansible/Add a repository using Ansible
See also
- Package managers: dpkg, APT, RPM, YUM, DNF, homebrew, pkgutil, opkg, Helm, pkg and snap, npm, Aptitude, alien, Conan, CRAN, Chocolatey, NuGet, PackageKit, Wajig, pacman, PIP, Apache Ivy, List packages, List files in packages, Spack
- Binary repository manager: JFrog Artifactory, GitLab, GitHub and Nexus repository manager
- Containers, OCI: Docker (
dockerd
),containerd
,runc
, Podman, buildah, skopeo, lxd, Container Registry, Service mesh, Windows Server containers, Containerpilot, CoreOS, CAdvisor, Containers networking, Container scanning, cosign, CRI, CRI-O,initContainers
, Sidecar container, Container images, latest - wikipedia:List_of_software_package_management_systems
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