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CheckInstall logo CheckInstall

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

Zypper logo Zypper

Zypper is a command line package manager for openSUSE which makes use of libzypp.
  • CheckInstall Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-09-10
  • Zypper Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-18

CheckInstall

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

Categories
  • Front End Package Manager
  • Package Manager
  • Windows Tools
  • JavaScript Package Manager
Website en.opensuse.org
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to CheckInstall and Zypper)

CheckInstall

Zypper

Front End Package Manager
46 46%
Front End Package Manager
54% 54
JavaScript Package Manager
69 69%
JavaScript Package Manager
31% 31
Package Manager
30 30%
Package Manager
70% 70
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

Zypper mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CheckInstall and Zypper, 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.

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS

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.

YUM Package Manager - Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems.

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

NixOS - 25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.

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