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Synaptic logo Synaptic

Please take a minute to watch our video, it gives an overview of Synaptic's role in financial services.

CheckInstall logo CheckInstall

CheckInstall is a Linux program which eases installation & uninstallation of software compiled from source.
  • Synaptic Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-10-03
  • CheckInstall Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-09-10

Synaptic videos

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  • Review - A look at the Synaptic 2 0 Waist Pack
  • Demo - Synaptic Amps Demo/Review

CheckInstall videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Synaptic and CheckInstall)

Synaptic

CheckInstall

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

User comments

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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.

Synaptic mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Synaptic yet. Tracking of Synaptic 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 Synaptic and CheckInstall, you can also consider the following products

Chocolatey - The sane way to manage software on Windows.

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.

Ninite - Ninite is the easiest way to install software.

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

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