Links to package management related sites

General

• List with package/archiving applications
• A comparison of the deb, rpm, tgz, and slp package formats
• Linux Package Management: Keeping up with the times

Apt-rpm project references

• apt-rpm the old home page is: AptRpm
• The apt cvs/project at conectiva
• APT-RPM howto
• RPM information about apt

Apt4rpm project references

• Apt4rpm home page
• Apt4rpm project page

Apt-rpm articles

• New features in APT-RPM
• Power Upgrades with apt4rpm
• APT - With Your Favorite Distribution (an slashdot article about apt4rpm)
• Is it time to change RPM?
• An RPM port of APT (very good)
• The Great Package Management Experiment
• Apt-get beats rpm (good)
• A very apt app
• Article: dpkg/apt-get on 'non Linux or HURD' systems
• Install kde for debian
• RPM doomed? (by Distrowatch) and the related discussion at slashdot
• Debian Package Management HOWTO Version 1.0
• An apt-get primer
• Linux-mag: Using APT on RPM-Based Systems

Apt documentation/guides

• apt4rpm manual
• Debian apt howto
• APT tricks
• apt-get introduction
• APT howto
• Information about packages (priorities and the like)
• Learning Debian GNU/Linux: The package Mngt utilities
• Debian faq: Package Management Tools
• Debian faq: Chapter 8 Keeping Your Debian System Up To Date
• Installing Debian Software with the Advanced Package Tool -- apt
• Apt information at Freshrpms
• Guide: Learning apt-get on the PowerPC .2
• Apt Help
• Red Hat and Debian Package Managers
• Linux tips Debian
• Unofficial apt repositories
• Apt-rpm lua stuff
• Package Management: APT for RPM
• APT Pupil: your own repository
• Ilya Evseev's tips
• A Very Apropos apt
• apt4rpm article in linux-magazine
• Apt-For-RPM-Howto

Apt and rpm tools

remark: not all tools work (already) for the rpm version of apt

• synaptic
• netselect
• Apt-grep
• Apt-file
• Feta a frontend to dpkg
• gnome-apt another GUI (gnome2) to apt
• GNOME Debian Package Manager
• Apt cacher
• Another apt cacher
• Apt sources
• Demish (a Debian mirror script)
• APT/RPM tools (primarily for solaris) at Rutgers.edu
• rpmlint
• rpmcheck
• auto2rpm
• Another apt shell
• How to use synaptic to install rpm packages stored on your hard disk

APT at Sun/Sparc/Solaris

• APT rpm for sun solaris
• Tools to build an "apt-able" repository: server tools

Misc

• Everything you want about rpm can be found here
• Package Tools
• An proposal for standardized (meta) databases to be used by all package managers.
• Smart a package manager for most packaging systems. Screenshots.
• ESP Package Manager (EPM)
• Installer a dirty word in linux?
• Ximian Adds Leading Software Vendors to Red Carpet Partner Program
  and the command line version of red-carpet can be obtained from here
• An OS independent installer
• Ximian open carpet
• pkgusage
• Buildpkg, a common package specifier
• RPM signing howto
• Poldek an RPM packages management helper tool
• The next generation package manager for Linux systems
• Mandrake's urpmi and urpmi
• Mandrake's rpm howto
• Mandrake Update Robot (The most efficient and the easiest way to secure your Mandrake servers and workstations)
• Yam
• Conary
• Linux Desktop Base
• rpmdc Fedora's delta rpm repository

Non Linux related

• Openpkg
  • openpkg
  • Openpkg release annoucement at Linux Today
  • A request to have openpkg use apt
• pkg-get for Solaris
• pkg-utils for Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Tru64, rpm and Aix