Top 15 Advanced Package Tool Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.

Apt makes it possible to:

- Install applications
- Remove applications
- Keep your applications up to date

Apt, which basically resolves dependency problems and retrieves the requested packages, works with dpkg, another tool, which handles the actual installation and removal of packages (applications). Apt is very powerful, and is primarily used on the command line (console/terminal). There are, however, many GUI/Graphical tools to let you use Apt without having to touch the command line.

1. Discover

Discover discover - KDE and Plasma resources management GUISince Plasma 5 it is called "Discover", in its KDE4 version it was called "Muon Discover".......

2. zsh

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3. aptosid

aptosid aptosid is an operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux unstable branch, codenamed sid, and our ISOs hold fast to the core values and the Social Contract of Debian (DFSG).We aim to be 100% compatible with debian sid, and we are at the forefront regarding the definition of a 'rolling'......

4. GDebi

GDebi GDebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages.......

5. Windows Command Prompt

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6. Package Disabler

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7. Muon

Muon Muon is a powerful graphical package manager built on the QApt framework. It boasts a powerful feature set in a usability-minded interface. Targeted for the intermediate to power user range.......

8. bash-completion

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9. Toybox (Linux command line utilities)

Toybox (Linux command line utilities) Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast, reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment.......

10. Windows Packager

Windows Packager wpkg is the actual Windows Packager. The tool used to create, check, install, configure, and remove packages. Although it is called "Windows Packager" it works under Unices as well, although it is very likely that you already have a packager on your system and therefore it probably won't be useful......

11. wkhtmltopdf

wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltopdf is an open source (LGPL) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.......

12. Debreate

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13. localepurge

localepurge This is a script to recover disk space wasted for unneeded locales, Gnome/KDE localizations and localized man pages. Depending on the installation, it is possible to save some 200, 300, or even more mega bytes of disk space dedicated for localization you will most probably never have any use for.......

14. PacmanXG

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15. datamash

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