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CheckInstall logo CheckInstall

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

Synaptic logo Synaptic

Please take a minute to watch our video, it gives an overview of Synaptic's role in financial services.
  • CheckInstall Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-09-10
  • Synaptic Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-10-03

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Synaptic videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to CheckInstall and Synaptic)

CheckInstall

Synaptic

Front End Package Manager
12 12%
Front End Package Manager
88% 88
JavaScript Package Manager
100 100%
JavaScript Package Manager
0% 0
Package Manager
8 8%
Package Manager
92% 92
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

Synaptic mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CheckInstall and Synaptic, 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.

Chocolatey - The sane way to manage software on Windows.

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.

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS

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

Ninite - Ninite is the easiest way to install software.

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