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Top 9 Package Manager Products in OSX

The best Package Manager Products within the OSX category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

MacUpdater MacPorts Homebrew Cask pkgsrc Portage XBPS (X Binary Package System) Fink

Summary

The top products on this list are Conda, MacUpdater, and MacPorts. All products here are categorized as: Tools for managing libraries and packages in software development. Software and applications specifically for macOS. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. 1
    Binary package manager with support for environments.

    #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 29 social mentions

  2. MacUpdater - keep all your apps up-to-date effortlessly

    #Windows Tools #Package Manager #Software Marketplace

  3. The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 5 social mentions

  4. Install with ease. Your software is just one command away from being ready and raring to go. Forget all about babysitting the install process step by step, from website to cleanup. ls /usr/local/Caskroom google-chrome .

    #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools

  5. 5
    pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 8 social mentions

  6. Portage is source-based package manager used by Gentoo and its descendants. It controls all process from fetching source through building it, installing into clean environment to "merging" with already installed software.

    #Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager

  7. dpkg is the core of package management in Debian-based Linux distributions. it has multiple front ends like apt or aptitude that extend dpkgs usability and features

    #Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager

  8. NOTE: XBPS (X Binary Package System) has been discontinued.
    GitHub is where people build software. More than 40 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.

    #Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager

  9. 9
    'Resurgam' the new album from Fink. Out now via R'COUP'D.

    #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Developer Tools

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