Modern tools.
Traditional dedication.
Home
| Purpose
| Linux
| Products
| Legality
| Special
| Downloads
| Articles
| Contact
| apt | 0.5.15cnc5 | GPL | Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support | A port of Debian's apt tools for RPM based distributions, or at least for Mandrake. Original RPM port done by and for Connectiva. It provides the apt-get utility that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features. Under development, use at your own risk! |
| aptitude | 0.2.13 | GPL | Curses-based apt frontend | Aptitude is a curses-based apt frontend with a number of useful extended features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, persistence of user actions, and extreme flexibility and customization. |
| checkinstall | 1.6.0 | GPL | CheckInstall installations tracker | CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities. |
| cpan2rpm | 2.022 | GPL | Perl module packager | This script generates an RPM package from a Perl module. It uses the standard RPM file structure and creates a spec file, a source RPM, and a binary, leaving these in their respective directories. The script can operate on local files, urls and CPAN module names. Install this package if you want to create RPMs out of Perl modules. |
| dpkg | 1.10.18 | GPL | Package maintenance system for Debian Linux | This package contains the programs dpkg which used to handle the installation and removal of packages on a Debian system. In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one. dpkg-dev is not provided on your Mandrake system. |
| dynamic | 0.12.4 | GPL | Handle dynamic creation of desktop entry for hotplug hardware | Create desktop entries for GNOME and KDE when a new peripheral is plugged in the system (mainly USB devices). |
| etc-update | 20020731 | GPL | Mergemaster for Linux | After an update with urpmi rpm makes .rpmnew copies of all files it knows it should not overwrite. Of course you have to look at all those files and merge any changes. A tedious and much forgotten job. On FreeBSD there is mergemaster to do the job. It recently got ported to OpenBSD and also to Gentoo. Now there is also a Linux version (not a port) :) |
| gtkdialogs | 2.1 | GPL | Ready-to-use gtk+ dialog boxes | Ready-to-use gtk+ dialog boxes: - xtest lets you test if X is running or not - gmessage show a message and some buttons, it returns with the number of the pressed button - gchooser presents a list of entries from which the user can choose - gfilechooser helps choosing a filename or dirname |
| gurpmi | 4.4.5 | GPL | User mode rpm GUI install | gurpmi is a graphical front-end to urpmi |
| mkcd | 3.8.7 | GPL | Script to build Linux distributions installation discs | mkcd script eases the packages repartition over CDs, allows to order packages and to create discs of any given size (CDs, DVDs...) |
| park-rpmdrake | 2.1.2 | GPL | Configure and update rpms on a park | Configure and update rpms on a park of hosts. The backend is parallel urpmi. |
| rpm | 4.2.2 | GPL | The RPM package management system | RPM is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. |
| rpm-build | 4.2.2 | GPL | Scripts and executable programs used to build packages | This package contains scripts and executable programs that are used to build packages using RPM. |
| rpmdrake | 2.1.2 | GPL | Mandrake Linux graphical front end for choosing packages for installion/removal | rpmdrake is a simple graphical frontend to manage software packages on a Mandrake Linux system; it has 3 different modes: - software packages installation; - software packages removal; - Mandrake Update (software packages updates). A fourth program manages the media (add, remove, edit). |
| rpm-get | 1.5 | GPL | Simple clone of apt-get for rpm | rpm-get is a simple clone of Debian's apt-get utility for automatically download and install files. Use the /etc/rpm-get.conf file to set up your favorites ftp mirrors. |
| rpm-helper | 0.9.1 | GPL | Helper scripts for rpm scriptlets | Helper scripts for rpm scriptlets to help create/remove : - groups - services - shells - users |
| rpm-rebuilder | 0.14 | GPL | Tools to build/check distributions | The rpm-rebuilder package contains a set of tools written in bourne shell and python to rebuild/check large sets of rpm source packages. check-distrib: checks if a set of source and binary rpms are in sync. rpm-rebuilder: build a set of rpms from a set of srpms. compute-build-requires: trace an rpm build command to find the BuildRequires it needs. compute-compile-order: from the sets of binary and sources rpms, find the order in which the source rpms must be recompiled. |
| rpmstats | 0.4 | GPL | Gather statistics from installed packages | rpmstats retrieves statistics about installed packages. |
| rpmtools | 4.5 | GPL | Contains various rpm command-line tools | Various tools needed by urpmi and drakxtools for handling rpm files. |
| synaptic | 0.46 | GPL | Graphical package management program using apt. | Synaptic is a graphical front-end for APT (Advanced Package Tool). It attempts to be a lot easier to use than other existing APT front-ends. Instead of using trees to display packages, Synaptic is heavily based on a powerful package filtering system. That greatly simplifies the interface while giving a lot more flexibility to browse through very long package lists. |
| urpmc | 1.2 | GPL | User rpm change(s|log) | urpmc will run urpmi.update on one or more media, get the list of packages that an auto-select would install, and show the changelogs of those packages from the hdlist. This program should be suitable for adding to a cronjob so you can see what updates you need to install and why. Especially useful for cooker developers so they can see what changes they are installing, not just the package names. |
| urpmi | 4.4.5 | GPL | User mode rpm install | urpmi takes care of dependencies between rpms, using a pool (or pools) of rpms. You can compare rpm vs. urpmi with insmod vs. modprobe |
| urpmi-parallel-ka-run | 4.4.5 | GPL | Parallel extensions to urpmi using ka-run | urpmi-parallel-ka-run is an extensions module to urpmi for handling distributed installation using ka-run tools. |
| urpmi-parallel-ssh | 4.4.5 | GPL | Parallel extensions to urpmi using ssh and scp | urpmi-parallel-ssh is an extensions module to urpmi for handling distributed installation using ssh and scp tools. |
| urpmi.setup | 0.4.4 | GPL | A tools to help to setup urpmi when using mirror. | This tools helps user to setup urpmi when using mirror. This is a perl script to help you to setup urpmi. First it looks at your system, find your mandrake version and architecture, it retrieves by http a list of mirrors. For each type of repository, it asks you which mirror you want to use. A default url is set in /etc/urpmi/mirror.config, but you can use another one. A second package contains all web component to make your own list of mirrors. You can also find a web page that provides the urpmi.addmedia commands. At that time, you can get a look at it at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon. |
| urpmi.setup-web | 0.4.4 | GPL | A tools to help setup mirror via ftp | This package the web page (write in php) to make your own list of mirror. It contain also a dynamic page to give right urpmi.addmedia command. |
| xrpm | 2.2 | GPL | An alternative package manager for RPMS. | XRPM-2.2 is an alternative tool for manipulating software packages built with RedHat's RPM package management tool. XRPM will allow you to list and install packages from directories and FTP sites. |
| yum | 2.0.1 | GPL | RPM installer/updater | Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically prompting the user as necessary. Caution: default installation use a service to allow/disallow cron-based automatic upgrade |
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln
Last changed: 20-Jun-2004 13:27:57 Find out who links to this page. Verify for yourself that this page is pure, standard HTML, not Ruby.
If you would like us to read email for
USD$1000 per page, payable in advance, send it here.