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aptitude VS Porg

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aptitude logo aptitude

Terminal-based apt frontend.

Porg logo Porg

Porg (formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code.
  • aptitude Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-01
  • Porg Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-09-10

aptitude videos

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Electrical apprentice math aptitude review

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Porg videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to aptitude and Porg)

aptitude

Porg

Front End Package Manager
72 72%
Front End Package Manager
28% 28
Package Manager
72 72%
Package Manager
28% 28
Windows Tools
79 79%
Windows Tools
21% 21
JavaScript Package Manager
37 37%
JavaScript Package Manager
63% 63

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Porg seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

aptitude mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of aptitude yet. Tracking of aptitude recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Porg mentions (2)

  • sudo make install
    I've used a tool called porg. [0] Hadn't heard of checkinstall but it seems similar but with integration into the distro's package manager. [0] https://porg.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • How do I uninstall Tintin++?
    Mac uses some BSD derivative right? If you compiled it from source then "make uninstall" should work. Alternatively you can catch which files are installed by "make", via various other programs. For instance https://porg.sourceforge.net/ offers that, but it may be too advanced for this task. The "poor man's" approach is to just look which files were installed during make and then delete these files/directories... Source: over 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aptitude and Porg, you can also consider the following products

Synaptic - Please take a minute to watch our video, it gives an overview of Synaptic's role in financial services.

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

pacman (package manager) - The pacman package manager is one of the major distinguishing features of ...

CheckInstall - CheckInstall is a Linux program which eases installation & uninstallation of software compiled from source.

npm - npm is a package manager for Node.

GNU Make - GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

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