Advanced Package Tool (APT) Alternatives

Apps similar to Advanced Package Tool (APT) include Chocolatey, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Homebrew, Flatpak, Bazaar App Store and Synaptic. You're spoiled for choice with Package Managers like Advanced Package Tool (APT): we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Flattool icon
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    Flattool is a command line script designed to improve user experience with flatpaks. It streamlines flatpak management tasks, making them more efficient and user-friendly.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flatpak
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  2. Lix Project icon
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    A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community.

    53 Lix Project alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Mac
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  3.  2 likes

    Eget is the best way to easily get pre-built binaries for your favorite tools. It downloads and extracts pre-built binaries from releases on GitHub

    55 eget alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • GitHub
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  4. MacPorts icon
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    The MacPorts Project is an opensource package management system that simplifies compiling, installing, upgrading, and removal of other open-source software on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and later, running on Intel or Apple Silicon.

    37 MacPorts alternatives

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    • Mac
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  5. AM icon
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    AUR-inspired database, and package manager to install, update (for real) and manage ALL AppImages and other portable formats for GNU/Linux, system-wide or locally, with the ease of APT and the power of PacMan.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Fink icon
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    What is Fink?

    Fink is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main goals. First, to modify existing Open Source software so that it will compile and run on Mac OS X. (This process is called portin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. nanobrew icon
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    A fast package manager for macOS and Linux. Written in Zig. Uses Homebrew's bottles and formulas under the hood, plus native .deb support for Docker containers.

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Docker
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  8. RubyGems icon
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    RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  9.  1 like

    A 5-20x faster experimental Homebrew alternative.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Bower icon
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    Bower is a package manager for the web. Bower lets you easily install assets such as images, CSS and JavaScript, and manages dependencies for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Git
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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  11. Verdaccio icon
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    Verdaccio is a lightweight private npm proxy registry built in Node.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  12. Koca icon
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    The universal build, package, and publishing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
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