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Pamac VS CheckInstall

Compare Pamac VS CheckInstall and see what are their differences

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Graphical Package Manager for Manjaro Linux (based on libalpm).

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CheckInstall is a Linux program which eases installation & uninstallation of software compiled from source.
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    2023-10-23
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    2020-09-10

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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.

Pamac mentions (0)

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pamac and CheckInstall, you can also consider the following products

Yay - Yay is an AUR helper written in go, based on the design of yaourt, apacman and pacaur.

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

paru - An AUR helper written in Rust and based on the design of yay. It aims to be your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with minimal interaction.

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.

Octopi - Powerful Pacman (GUI | frontend) written in Qt

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