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Swaret

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Developer(s)
  
Michael Manry

Platform
  
Linux

Written in
  
Shell script

Initial release
  
2001; 16 years ago (2001)

Stable release
  
1.6.3 / October 2006; 10 years ago (2006-10)

Operating system
  
Slackware and derivatives

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

Contents

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.[1]

    Distributions

    Swaret currently runs on STUX.

    References

    Swaret Wikipedia
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