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Porg logo Porg

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

Octopi logo Octopi

Powerful Pacman (GUI | frontend) written in Qt
  • Porg Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-09-10
  • Octopi Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-01

Porg videos

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  • Review - Rating. Every. Porg.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Porg and Octopi)

Porg

Octopi

Package Manager
100 100%
Package Manager
0% 0
Front End Package Manager
38 38%
Front End Package Manager
62% 62
Work Music
0 0%
Work Music
100% 100
JavaScript Package Manager
100 100%
JavaScript Package Manager
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Porg seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 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.

Porg mentions (2)

  • sudo make install
    I've used a tool called porg. [0] Hadn't heard of checkinstall but it seems similar but with integration into the distro's package manager. [0] https://porg.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • How do I uninstall Tintin++?
    Mac uses some BSD derivative right? If you compiled it from source then "make uninstall" should work. Alternatively you can catch which files are installed by "make", via various other programs. For instance https://porg.sourceforge.net/ offers that, but it may be too advanced for this task. The "poor man's" approach is to just look which files were installed during make and then delete these files/directories... Source: over 1 year ago

Octopi mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Porg and Octopi, you can also consider the following products

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

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

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

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

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.

TkPacman - A lightweight GUI for pacman built with Tcl/Tk

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