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CheckInstall logo CheckInstall

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

Advanced Package Tool logo Advanced Package Tool

Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.
  • CheckInstall Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-09-10
  • Advanced Package Tool Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-07-25

CheckInstall

Categories
  • Front End Package Manager
  • JavaScript Package Manager
  • DevOps Tools
  • Workflows
Website checkinstall.izto.org
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Advanced Package Tool

Categories
  • Front End Package Manager
  • Package Manager
  • Windows Tools
  • JavaScript Package Manager
Website wiki.debian.org
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to CheckInstall and Advanced Package Tool)

CheckInstall

Advanced Package Tool

JavaScript Package Manager
50 50%
JavaScript Package Manager
50% 50
Front End Package Manager
22 22%
Front End Package Manager
78% 78
Package Manager
12 12%
Package Manager
88% 88
Windows Tools
0 0%
Windows Tools
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, CheckInstall seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 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.

CheckInstall mentions (3)

  • Are there tools to manage self compiled software?
    Checkinstall to create deb or rpm package out of source installs which you can easily remove with your package manager again. (But this only keeps track of the installed files, doesn't do any dependency tracking). Source: over 2 years ago
  • Completely uninstall/remove package compiled from source?
    There is also checkinstall which you run instead of make install. It creates a (simple) RPM package for you. You can remove that package with your package manager later on for easy uninstallation. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • How do you manage packages installed form tar files?
    Checkinstall is a rather popular way of dealing with self compiled packages. Source: about 3 years ago

Advanced Package Tool mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Advanced Package Tool yet. Tracking of Advanced Package Tool recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CheckInstall and Advanced Package Tool, you can also consider the following products

Porg - Porg (formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code.

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.

Chocolatey - The sane way to manage software on Windows.

CMake - CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS

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