Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux




Apps similar to PackageKit include Homebrew, which is free and open source. Other options are Bazaar App Store, Synaptic, GNOME Software and Discover. There's no shortage of Software Installers like PackageKit, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, the web and Windows.




Solseek is a simple terminal user interface that allows you to browse, search, and manage packages from the Solus packages. Packages can be installed, reinstalled, updated, verified, and removed through the interface.

Ubuntu Sources List Generator is a website where you can generate a sources.list file with a lot of useful repositories.


pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages. It is the native package manager on SmartOS, NetBSD, and Minix, and is portable across 23 different operating systems. Use one package manager across all of your systems!
The Debgen is a tool that allows the user to create /apt/sources.list file by adding some extra repositories beyond the standards.

Debian uses the main programs apt and dpkg to manage packages. These programs do not make a distinction between packages that got installed because some other program happened to need it and packages you really asked for.

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.
PostInstallerF is a small, lightweight, useful tool that can be used to install 100+ essential softwares, Games, audio/video codecs, and third-party repositories which are not included by default in Fedora, Ubuntu and Manjaro.


Package management system for Gentoo Linux.
The Portage Development Project works to provide a continuously expanding and developing tool for the management and installation of packages. The developers work on providing a coherent system that is as trouble free as possible (bac.

QApt is a collection of tools and a library providing a wrapper around APT. The intention is to ease the use of APT in Qt-based programs.

PortAuthority provides a GUI for the MacPorts Unix software management system for Mac OS X. MacPorts is a powerful command-line tool for installing and updating a variety of Unix-based applications for the Mac.
