KPackage was
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that enable collaborative work on its projects. Its products include the KDE Plasma gra ...
's
package manager
A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner.
A package manager deals wi ...
frontend.
It supported
BSD
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, beginni ...
,
Debian
Debian () is a free and open-source software, free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kerne ...
,
Gentoo,
RPM
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One revolution per minute is equivalent to hertz.
Standards
ISO 80000-3:2019 def ...
and Slackware packages. It provided a GUI for the management and upgrade of existing packages and the installation and acquirement of new packages. Additionally, it provided functionality to help manage package caches. KPackage was part of
kdeadmin, and was developed at KDE.org.
See also
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PackageKit
PackageKit is a free and open-source suite of software applications designed to provide a consistent and high-level abstraction layer for a number of different package management systems. PackageKit was created by Richard Hughes in 2007, and fi ...
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Synaptic (software)
Synaptic is a GTK-based graphical user interface designed for the APT (software), APT package manager used by the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives. Synaptic is usually used on systems based on Deb (file format), deb packages but can ...
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Ubuntu Software Center
References
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External links
KPackage user wiki
KDE software
Linux PMS graphical front-ends
Package management software that uses Qt
Software update managers
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