Package Managers

1. DNF

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CREATED: <2025-02-22 Sat 18:57>

[2025-02-22 Sat 18:58] – rpm-software-management/dnf5 [2025-02-22 Sat 19:01] – Changes in Fedora 41 For System Administrators :: Fedora Docs

Dandified YUM

2. RPM

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CREATED: <2025-02-22 Sat 19:02>

[2025-02-22 Sat 19:02] – rpm.org - Home [2025-02-22 Sat 19:03] – RPM Packaging Guide [2025-02-22 Sat 19:06] – RPM-based Linux distributions - Wikipedia

3. rpm-ostree

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CREATED: <2025-02-22 Sat 19:18>

[2025-02-22 Sat 19:18] – A true hybrid image/package system | rpm-ostree

DNF Count Me support | rpm-ostree

4. Pacman

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CREATED: <2025-03-03 Mon 16:28>

[2025-03-03 Mon 16:29] – Pacman Home Page [2025-03-03 Mon 16:29] – pacman - ArchWiki [2025-06-08 Sun 19:28] <- Arch

4.1. Pacman Hooks

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CREATED: <2025-06-08 Sun 19:29>

[2025-06-08 Sun 19:29] – pacman hooks - ArchWiki

Pacman can run pre- and post-transaction hooks from the usr/share/libalpm/hooks directory; more directories can be specified with the HookDir option in pacman.conf, which defaults to /etc/pacman.d/hooks. Hook file names must be suffixed with .hook. Pacman hooks are not interactive.

4.2. Pactree

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CREATED: <2025-06-08 Sun 19:31>

[2025-06-08 Sun 19:31] – pactree(8) — Arch manual pages

  • show dependencies of a package
  • not included with pacman - install pacman-contrib

5. APK

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CREATED: <2025-03-04 Tue 15:52>

[2025-03-04 Tue 15:54] – Working with the Alpine Package Keeper (apk) - Alpine Linux Documentation

6. Flatpak

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CREATED: <2025-04-06 Sun 17:55>

[2025-04-06 Sun 17:55] – Flatpak—the future of application distribution

  • cross-Linux distro package manager
  • sandboxed