YUM Package Manager AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Software Installers

The best Software Installer alternative to YUM Package Manager is Chocolatey, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to YUM Package Manager and many of them are Software Installers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Software Installer alternatives to YUM Package Manager are Homebrew, Bazaar App Store, Synaptic and Advanced Package Tool (APT).

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  1. Chocolatey icon
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    Command-line application for installing, updating, and removing Windows software without registration, featuring centralized audits, automatic package creation, offline packages, disk space optimization, real-time deployment, inventory tracking, and multi-installer support.

    81 Chocolatey alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Chocolatey
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  2. Bazaar is a new app store for GNOME with a focus on discovering and installing applications and add-ons from Flatpak remotes, particularly Flathub. It emphasizes supporting the developers who make the Linux desktop possible.

    42 Bazaar App Store alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
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  3. 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+.

    59 Synaptic alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  4. Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian. The user interface application for Apt is aptitude.

    53 Advanced Package Tool (APT) alternatives

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    • Linux
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  5. 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...

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Discover icon
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    Utility for KDE's Plasma desktop environment for browsing, installing, and removing applications, implemented as an app store like application.

    42 Discover alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
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  7. aptitude icon
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    aptitude is a terminal-based frontend for Advanced Package Tool (APT) with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Robust package system that manages installation, updates, verification, and removal of software packages on Linux. Includes a library API for development in languages like C and Python. Widely used across Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and more; released under GPL-2.0-or-later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  9. Lix Project icon
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    A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community.

    53 Lix Project alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Mac
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