
rpmdrake is a graphical interface to
urpmi, which permits the installation of
software packages. It is provided as part of
Mandriva Linux
Mandriva Linux, a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux, is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A.
Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, syste ...
,
Mageia
Mageia is a Linux-based operating system, distributed as free and open-source software. It was forked from the Mandriva Linux distribution. The Greek term () means enchantment, fascination, glamour, wizardry.
The first release of the software ...
and
ROSA
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Plants and animals
* ''Rosa'' (plant), the genus of roses
* Rosa (sea otter), a sea otter that has become popular on the internet
* Rosa (cow), a Spanish-born cow
People
* Rosa (given name)
* Rosa (surname)
* San ...
for package installation.
The application is written in
gtk2-perl, and allows:
* updating lists of packages available from configured
installation media (CDs, websites, or
network shares)
* visualization of
dependencies for one or more packages
* installation and un-installation of packages to and from the
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...
rpmdrake is
free software
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, available under the
GNU General Public License
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, version 2.
Licensing information for rpmdrake
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urpmi was developed by Guillaume Cottenceau, then by Rafael Garcia-Suarez, then by Thierry Vignaud, first at Mandriva, then at Mageia (se
.
See also
*RPM Package Manager
RPM Package Manager (RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager, now a recursive acronym) is a free and open-source package management system. The name RPM refers to the file format and the package manager program itself. RPM was intended primar ...
References
Linux package management-related software
Linux PMS graphical front-ends
Mandriva Linux
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