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CheckInstall logo CheckInstall

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

aptitude logo aptitude

Terminal-based apt frontend.
  • CheckInstall Landing page
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    2020-09-10
  • aptitude Landing page
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    2023-08-01

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to CheckInstall and aptitude)

CheckInstall

aptitude

Front End Package Manager
25 25%
Front End Package Manager
75% 75
JavaScript Package Manager
64 64%
JavaScript Package Manager
36% 36
Package Manager
14 14%
Package Manager
86% 86
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

aptitude mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CheckInstall and aptitude, 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.

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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.

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

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

npm - npm is a package manager for Node.

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