Porticus Alternatives

Porticus is described as 'Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. MacPorts provides ready to build open-source software packages modified to compile and run on Mac OS X. Porticus provides a GUI front-end to this tool' and is an app. There are three alternatives to Porticus for Mac, Linux, Debian and Xfce. The best Porticus alternative is Synaptic, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Porticus are Pallet and PortAuthority.

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Porticus alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022

Synaptic
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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+.
57 Synaptic alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Package Manager
Software Installer
Platforms
Linux
Debian
Xfce
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Pallet
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Pallet is the official MacPorts GUI app for Mac OS X and was started as a GSoC project in May 2009. It is in active development and continuous improvement (this is a beta product).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
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PortAuthority
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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.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
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