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Swaret

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Swaret
Developer(s)Michael Manry
Initial release2001; 24 years ago (2001)
Stable release
1.6.3 / October 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10)
Written inShell script
Operating systemSlackware and derivatives
PlatformLinux
TypePackage management systems
LicenseGPL

Swaret was a program for the Slackware Linux distribution that resolves dependencies.[1][2] Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features

  • True library dependency resolution
  • Rollback capability[citation needed]
  • 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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Castro, Jose Dieguez (2016-06-10) (in en). Introducing Linux Distros. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-1392-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=9vZjDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Swaret%22+linux&pg=PA275. 
  2. ↑ Negus, Christopher (2005-01-28) (in en). Linux Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7645-8974-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YDXlYUuIQv8C&q=%22Swaret%22+linux&pg=PA388. 
  3. ↑ "SWareT / Discussion / Open Discussion: Is swaret dead?". https://sourceforge.net/p/swaret/discussion/303953/thread/a4627fcd/?limit=25. 




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