Swaret

SwaretDeveloper(s)| Michael Manry

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Initial release| 2001; 25 years ago (2001)
Stable release|

1.6.3 / October 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10)

Written in| Shell script
Operating system| Slackware and derivatives
Platform| Linux
Type| Package management systems
License| GPL

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

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 History
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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="Swaret"+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="Swaret"+linux&pg=PA388.
3. ↑ "SWareT / Discussion / Open Discussion: Is swaret dead?". https://sourceforge.net/p/swaret/discussion/303953/thread/a4627fcd/?limit=25.

## External links

* v
* t
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Linux package management systems

dpkg|

* APT
* KPackage
* Synaptic
* Ubuntu Software Center
* aptitude
* dselect

RPM|

* APT-RPM
* DNF
* up2date
* urpmi
* Rpmdrake
* YUM
* ZYpp

Embedded systems|

* ipkg
* opkg

Distribution-agnostic|

* AppImage
* Flatpak
* GNU Guix
* Nix
* pkgsrc
* Snappy

Others (binary)|

* Conary
* Entropy
* netpkg
* pacman
* PiSi
* PPM
* slackpkg
* slapt-get
* swaret
* upkg

Others (source)|

* Sorcery
* Portage

Front-ends|

* Autopackage
* Listaller
* PackageKit
* Discover
* GNOME Software
* Apper
* Zero Install

Related topics|

* AppData
* AppStream
* Package format

* List
* Category
* Commons
* Italics indicates a discontinued or inactive package management system.

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