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The best Software Installer alternative to Octopi is Synaptic, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't work for you, our users have ranked seven alternatives to Octopi, but unfortunately only two of them are Software Installers.

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Octopi is the highest rated graphical user interface for the Arch Linux pacman package management tool in AUR. It is written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and its source code is hosted on GitHub. The first commits date from...

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Octopi alternatives page was last updated Dec 15, 2024
  1. Synaptic icon
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    Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

    49 Synaptic alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  PPA
    3.  Integrated Search
    4.  Filter search results
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    Synaptic VS Octopi

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    • Synaptic is the most popular Linux alternative to Octopi.

    • Synaptic is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Octopi.

    • Synaptic is Free and Open SourceOctopi is also Free and Open Source
    • Synaptic is Lightweight and Privacy focusedOctopi is not according to our users
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    bauh (ba-oo), formerly known as fpakman, is a graphical interface for managing your Linux software (packages/applications). It currently supports the following formats: AppImage, ArchLinux repositories/AUR, Flatpak, Snap and Web applications.

    17 bauh alternatives
    bauh screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Flatpak
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