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:

Programming languages

• PIP, pipx and Conda for Python
• NPM (2010) for Node.js (JavaScript)
• yarn (2016) for Node.js (JavaScript)
• Conan C / C++ Package Manager
• gem for Ruby
• cargo for Rust
• Hex for Erlang
• cabal for Haskell

Linux:

• dpkg, APT and snap
• RPM, YUM and DNF
• pacman
• opkg
• apk
• Flatpak

macOS:

• brew

Windows:

• Chocolatey (2017)
• NuGet (2010)
• scoop

Misc:

• Apache Ivy (2004)
• Helm for Kubernetes
• vcpkg

Related terms

• PackageKit
• wajig wrapper to dpkg/APT
• Bitnami
• List packages
• Homebrew: list available package versions
• https://command-not-found.com/
• Go packages

Activities

Basic

1. Identify package managers used by major Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
2. Try to identify mayor differences between dpkg and rpm packages
3. Identify differences between dpkg, rpm, apt, aptitude, yum and dnf linux software
4. 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