Swaret

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

Swaret
Developer(s)Michael Manry
Initial release2001 (2001)
Stable release
1.6.3 / October 2006 (2006-10)
Written inShell script
Operating systemSlackware and derivatives
PlatformLinux
TypePackage management systems
LicenseGPL
Websiteswaret.sourceforge.net 

Features

  • True library dependency resolution
  • Rollback capability
  • Logging
  • 3rd party software repository support
  • Support for http, ftp, rsync, and local filesystems

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.

Distributions

Swaret currently runs on STUX.

References

    http://swaret.org

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