Porg Alternatives

Porg is described as '(formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code' and is an app. There are four alternatives to Porg for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Go (Programming Language), Homebrew, GitHub and Mac apps. The best Porg alternative is Advanced Package Tool (APT), which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Porg are eget, Grop and CheckInstall.

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  1. Advanced Package Tool (APT) icon

    Advanced Package Tool (APT)

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    Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian. The user interface application for Apt is aptitude.

    50 Advanced Package Tool (APT) alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Updating Packages (apt-get upgrade)
     
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    It needs prebuilt packages

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    • Advanced Package Tool (APT) is Free and Open SourcePorg is also Free and Open Source
    • Advanced Package Tool (APT) is Lightweight and Privacy focusedPorg is not according to our users

  2. eget

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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • GitHub
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  4. Grop

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    Grop is the graphic interface of porg. It uses and depends on the GTKMM library (version 3.4.0 or later). It's not meant to be a replacement of porg, since it lacks some important features like logging package installations, but it allows for manipulating the installed...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  5. CheckInstall

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    CheckInstall is a Linux program which eases installation & uninstallation of software compiled from source. After software compilation it can automatically generate a Slackware, RPM, or Debian-compatible package that can later be cleanly uninstalled.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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