Swaret

Swaret
Developer(s)	Michael Manry
Initial release	2001 (2001)
Stable release	1.6.3 / October 2006 (2006-10)
Written in	Shell script
Operating system	Slackware and derivatives
Platform	Linux
Type	Package management systems
License	GPL
Website	swaret.sourceforge.net

Swaret was a program for the Slackware Linux distribution that resolves dependencies. Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features

True library dependency resolution
Rollback capability
Logging
3rd party software repository support
Support for http, ftp, rsync, and local filesystems

History

The program was created by Luc Cottyn, and was originally called "autopkg". However, because of a conflict with another project of the same name it was renamed to swaret. It has no active maintainer.

Distributions

Swaret currently runs on STUX.

References

External links

Official website

Linux package management systems

dpkg	APT Synaptic Ubuntu Software Center KPackage Adept Manager aptitude dselect

RPM	APT-RPM up2date urpmi Rpmdrake ZYpp YUM DNF

Others	Pacman ipkg opkg PPM Upkg PISI Conary Portage Entropy slapt-get slackpkg netpkg swaret

Front-ends	PackageKit GNOME Software Apper Autopackage klik Listaller Zero Install

Related topics	AppData AppStream Application Packaging Package format

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