What is your preferred Linux Package Management System?

aatif · 09-20-2014, 11:59 AM

I proffered RPM / YUM

AnonymousGuy · 09-20-2014, 01:24 PM

I like both pacman and apt-get. But I will use whatever the distro offers.

jamison20000e · 09-20-2014, 01:34 PM

I think kinda distro dependent aren't they? My favorite is Debian! So...

rtmistler · 09-22-2014, 11:44 AM

I voted DPKG/APT because that's the most common I encounter; heck not even knowlegable about many of those.

My REAL fevorite is:

Code:

tar -xvf <filename>
cd <directory>
./configure
make
sudo make install

lembark · 09-23-2014, 07:41 PM

pacman on ARM.
portage on anything larger.

samyaza81 · 09-24-2014, 11:31 PM

Zypper because the sat-solver
But I like slackware approach to have language and library dependencies already installed so I don't have to deal with

itsgregman · 09-26-2014, 08:21 AM

I voted tgz/slackpkg and my second choice wasn't listed which is rpm/apt

Cyberjackal · 10-12-2014, 10:00 AM

I'd choose Pacman, under Arch all-the-way.
Although there are things I really like about Slackpkg, Yum, & Apt as well... NOTHING comes close to Pacman IMO

ReaperX7 · 10-13-2014, 01:51 AM

Portage works well for my tastes, pkgtools is nice too but honestly, I prefer no package manager.

If you can't use ./configure && make && make install && make clean, then don't even bother.

Make is absolute best package manager period, and even though I had to select the closest thing to it, I choose Make any day.

replica9000 · 10-13-2014, 10:43 AM

What I like in FreeBSD 10 is that if make keep failing on a particular package, I can use pkg to install the pre-compiled binary.

ozar · 10-13-2014, 11:57 AM

Pacman under Arch Linux has been working extremely well for me since 2004, so I'll stick with that until a good reason to change comes along.