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Swaret
Developer(s)Michael Manry
Initial release2001; 23 years ago (2001)
Stable release
1.6.3 / October 2006; 17 years ago (2006-10)
Written inShell script
Operating systemSlackware and derivatives
PlatformLinux
TypePackage management systems
LicenseGPL
Websiteswaret.sourceforge.net Edit this on Wikidata

Swaret was a program for the Slackware Linux distribution that resolves dependencies.[1][2] Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features

History

The program was created by Luc Cottyn, and was originally called "autopkg". However, because of a conflict with another project of the same name it was renamed to swaret. It has no active maintainer.[3]

References

  1. ^ Castro, Jose Dieguez (2016-06-10). Introducing Linux Distros. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-1392-6.
  2. ^ Negus, Christopher (2005-01-28). Linux Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7645-8974-4.
  3. ^ "SWareT / Discussion / Open Discussion: Is swaret dead?". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2021-01-23.