On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:03:01 +0800, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Didn't CA create the Chorus Software Manager that was generally very >well received by the community. I haven't used it but I heard that >installing mainframe software using SMP/E was as easy as installing a >browser add-on using the Web UI. As for Linux package managers, they are >so simple to use. I use debian systems and can install a complex >software product such as >Docker simply by using the "sudo apt install docker" command. Even >Windows has a package manager now and "winget install python" from >PowerShell is much simplier than downloading an MSI installer or fussy >around with a GUI like Windows Store. > Installing software on Ubuntu, you can use: - Ubuntu software center - APT - Synaptic Package Manager - Downloadable packages (.deb) - Installing with APT - Installing with dpkg - Installing via the GUI - Compiling from source code If like me you support various distros, then you're going to have to remember some of these, and this is a very cutdown list of installers: - apk-tools (apk): Alpine Package Keeper, the package manager for Alpine Linux; - Flatpak: A containerized/sandboxed packaging format previously known as xdg-app; - netpkg: The package manager used by Zenwalk. Compatible with Slackware package management tools; - Nix Package Manager: Nix is a powerful package manager for 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 of build environments; - OpenPKG: Cross-platform package management system based on RPM Package Manager; - opkg: Fork of ipkg lightweight package management intended for use on embedded Linux devices; - Pacman: Used in Arch Linux, Frugalware and DeLi Linux. Its binary package format is a zstd-compressed tar archive (file extension: .pkg.tar.zst) built using the makepkg utility (which comes bundled with pacman) and a specialized type of shell script called a PKGBUILD; - PETget: Used by Puppy Linux; - RPM Package Manager: Created by Red Hat. RPM is the Linux Standard Base packaging format and the base of a number of additional tools, including apt4rpm, Red Hat's up2date, Mageia's urpmi, openSUSE's ZYpp (zypper), PLD Linux's poldek, Fedora's DNF, and YUM, which is used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Yellow Dog Linux; - probably the one most people know of but each distro seems to have it's own implementation so you have to know how to use each different one - slapt-get: Which is used by Slackware and works with a binary package format that is essentially a xz-compressed tar archive with the file extension .txz; - Smart Package Manager: Used by CCux Linux; - Snappy: Cross-distribution package manager, non-free on the server-side, originally developed for Ubuntu; - Zero Install (0install): Cross-platform packaging and distributions software. It is available for Arch Linux, Debian, Knoppix, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Red Hat and Slackware; So now I've installed python using the package manager for the distro, I then want to install packages at an application level. For example, if I want to install python packages, I then have to use pip and so on (Go, Gradle, Maven, Yam, et.) and now on z/OS we have miniconda...When will it ever stop? Sebastian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
