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It is based on the Nix package manager with Guile Scheme APIs and specializes in providing exclusively free software

Flatpak: A containerized/sandboxed packaging format previously known as xdg-app.

tbz2), that are created using Entropy itself, from tbz2 binaries produced by Portage: From ebuilds, a type of specialized shell script It works with binary packages that are bzip2-compressed tar archives (file extension.

Entropy: Used by and created for Sabayon Linux.

The ncurses-based front-end for APT, aptitude, is also a popular package manager for Debian-based systems deb format and was the first to have a widely known dependency resolution tool, APT.

dpkg: Originally used by Debian and now by Ubuntu.

The following package management systems distribute apps in binary package form i.e., all apps are compiled and ready to be installed and use. By all means, go and check it out and test it – I’m sure Patrick and the gang would love to hear further feedback.This is a list of notable software package management systems, categorized first by package format (binary, source code, hybrid) and then by operating system family. I hope this clears up some of the details about how Ninite works and what information it sends back, and why.

Lastly, Patrick said that they’ve mainly been testing with gDebi – which is perhaps why Ninite didn’t work for me when I opened up with the Software Center on Ubuntu 10.10. There’s really no “mystery that is Ninite,” everything we do is right there if you open it up.

“ just adds the right repositories and keys, runs apt-get, and then kicks off report.py to let us know if something breaks.

Patrick also wanted to explain how the script actually works: The only added information in that report is whether things worked.” “The architecture plus the Ubuntu version is sent back with success/failure status of each app so we can improve the installer. The machine architecture and Ubuntu version are sent in the User-Agent header to _every website you visit_ and we already know what apps you picked since we made the installer for you. deb you download from Ninite, and it does send information home, it doesn’t send you kernel version but rather your architecture (32 bit / 64 bit) and Ubuntu version. In the post I mentioned that Ninite ran a script that “reports your kernel version and Ubuntu release” to Ninite – this isn’t entirely true as Patrick explained. Since then, I’ve been chatting with Patrick Swieskowski, Ninite’s co-founder, who wanted to clear up some facts.

and Ninite sent some system information back to their servers.

A few days ago I posted an article about Ninite, a software installation service that helps install multiple applications and repositories – especially handy if you’ve just done a fresh install.