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February 2006

APT - openSUSE

a package manager, primarily used by Debian based distributions, which makes installation and removal packages very easy. It automates the process of downloading and installation of required packages along with their dependency requirements.

January 2006

December 2005

CheckInstall - Linux Utility

utility to automatically build RPM/Debian or Slackware packages from tar.gz source pages. This makes it possible to do a "clean" installation and de-installation of almost any source code tar.gz package.

Klik Wiki - install software, as non-root user or from a Live-CD. because one software package is one compressed cmg file.

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an easy way to install software, even while running as non-root user or from a Live-CD. Because one software package is always exactly just one compressed cmg file, you can always delete software packages without any problems for other software. Because y

November 2005

The Fedora Legacy Project - a community-supported open source project.

to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions. This will allow for a longer effective life for those releases.

Dillo Web Browser Home Page

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a GTK-based web browser written completely in C, designed to be small and fast. The RPM is only 220-250 KB, even with various patches applied to add functionality and to make it play nice with KDE and Gnome menus. At present I have packages for several ve

Klik Blog - the easiest way to install software - even as non-root user or from a Live-CD.

each software package is one compressed cmg file. delete software packages without problems for other software. save cmg files everywhere, this solution is very flexible

Klik Home - the easiest way to install software - even as non-root user or from a Live-CD.

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each software package is one compressed cmg file. delete software packages without problems for other software. save cmg files everywhere, this solution is very flexible.

Klik: Documentation - the easiest way to install software - even as non-root user or from a Live-CD.

each software package is one compressed cmg file. delete software packages without problems for other software. save cmg files everywhere, this solution is very flexible

One-click installation with Klik - Article to read* - the easiest way to install software - even as non-root user or from a Live-CD.

each software package is one compressed cmg file. delete software packages without problems for other software. save cmg files everywhere, this solution is very flexible.

October 2005

Better Living Through RPM, Part 1

Installing and Removing Packages - yum, up2date, and redhat-config-packages

PyRPM - experimental project-rpm package management-python module-

collection of scripts-similar functionality as rpm, yum and co.-written from ground up-implemented in python.-rpm packages-yum repositories-repo data.

Installing Planet CCRMA on Fedora Core 2 or 3

package managment info - ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software - audio-multimedia rpms +