eget Alternatives

eget is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to eget for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Flatpak apps. The best eget alternative is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like eget are Homebrew, Flatpak, Synaptic and GNOME Software.

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  1. Chocolatey icon

    Chocolatey

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    Windows-centric package manager streamlining software updates without registration. Privacy-focused, ad-free, open-source, lightweight, and supports a command-line interface for efficiency and ease of use.

    72 Chocolatey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Chocolatey is the most popular Windows alternative to eget.

    • Chocolatey is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to eget.

    • Chocolatey is Freemium and Open Sourceeget is Free and Open Source
    • Chocolatey is Lightweight and Privacy focusedeget is not according to our users
  2. Homebrew icon

    Homebrew

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    Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux.

    60 Homebrew alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    • Homebrew is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to eget.

    • Homebrew is Free and Open Sourceeget is also Free and Open Source
    • Homebrew is Lightweighteget is not according to our users
  4. Flatpak icon

    Flatpak

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    Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including...

    29 Flatpak alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. npm icon

    npm

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    npm is a package manager for Node.js that is run through the command line and manages dependencies for an application. It is the predominant package manager for Node.js.

    34 npm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • npm is the most popular Web-based alternative to eget.

    • npm is Free and Open Sourceeget is also Free and Open Source
  10. pacman (package manager) icon

    pacman (package manager)

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    The pacman package manager is one of the major distinguishing features of Arch Linux . It combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build system. The goal of pacman is to make it possible to easily manage packages, whether...

    44 pacman (package manager) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
     
  12. Nix Package Manager icon

    Nix Package Manager

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    Nix is a powerful package manager for macOS, Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup...

    53 Nix Package Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     

  14. dra

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    A command line tool to download release assets from GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • GitHub
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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