Free package manager software for linux

Mpak is being designed from the ground up to be a kernel and architecture independent package manager for free operating systems.
Main features:
- a single statically linked executable: The package manager is responsible for installing all packages, including packages like glibc, which the whole system depends on. In the event that a critical package is damaged, we should be able to use the package manager to install a replacement for the package, so other system functionality can be repaired. To install a new operating system, a user will only need a boot CD (or an already running system) and a copy of the mpak executable
- dependency tracking: Mpak will be able to find and install all the dependencies for a package. Dependency cycles will be automatically handled via a bootstrapping mechanism.
- the package tree: Package metadata will be kept in a directory tree, organized by category. An installation of an mpak based distribution will have a "system" tree. There will be support for external trees provided by other vendors. Developers may provide package trees for their own projects.
- support for building from source and binary packages: Mpak will be able to use binary packages and build packages automatically from source.
- optional feature support: Many packages have optional build-time features. Mpak will have support for these. Following autoconfs lead, we will divide them into supported packages (e.g. --with-gnome) and internal features (e.g. --enable-mmx).
- kernel and architecture indepence: mpak will have features to simplify porting to different kernels. This way, we can have a unified distribution with support for many kernels (Linux, Hurd, BSD, Darwin, etc.), with nearly identical functionality across kernels.
- package binding support: mpak will be able to bind an installation of a package to another installed package. For example, suppose you have 2 versions of the linux kernel installed, 2.4.19 and 2.4.20. You want to install the alsa-drivers package for both of these kernels. Normally, you would only be able to install one copy of alsa-drivers, but mpak will let you bind the package to the linux kernel package, so that you can have one installation of alsa-drivers for each version of the linux kernel package you have installed.
- hard and soft dependencies: mpak will have support for hard and soft dependencies. Suppose package A has a hard dependency on package B. Then, when package B is upgraded, package A will need to be rebuilt. If package A had a soft dependency on package B, then A would not need to be rebuilt.

RPM Package Maker is a frontend for other linux tools in order to help linux users to create RPM packages quickly and easily.
Since version 0.8 minimal spec files are kept in:
/usr/src/packages/SPECS/mini
Enhancements:
- Small improvements and bugfixes

PacKommander is a GUI wrapper for the pacman package manager of Arch Linux.
It is my very first Kommander script; but it does the job pretty well. Use it to install, upgrade, search, remove, query packages (local or repository) as well as synchronize database, upgrade system and clear file cache.
Main features:
- Quite light-weight and fast.
- Can perform almost all the tasks that CLI pacman can do. This includes install /upgrade /remove /query /view details /search packages both from server repositories as well as local packages in hard disk.
- Can be (in fact, must be) started as normal user to perform non-admin tasks like search/query pacakges. Root privilege is sought for automatically (using gksudo) as and when required (e.g. to install/remove packages).
- Can handle multiple packages at a time using a Package Queue system. Essentially, a list of queued packages is shown (packages can be added/removed from queue), from where you can select and manipulate multiple packages.
- Certain tasks like Upgrading entire system, syncing database with server, clearing cache, optimizing pacman, etc can be done by a click of a button.
- Hand-editing of certain configuration files is also supported using nano editor in xterm.
- Every task is actually carried out by pacman. The progress can be seen in the external xterm window and the user has to interact with it limitedly (for confirmations, etc.)
- The UI is fully configurable using Kommander-editor.

Kpackage project is a KDE tool for installing, viewing and uninstalling packages.

The formats supported include RPM, Debian, Slackware and BSD package manager.

KPackage is part of the KDE project.

KPackage can be found in the kdeadmin package.

Fedora Package Menu is a service menu for easy installation of downloaded RPMs.

Requires sudo and good configuration of sudo.

My File Manager is a small and lightweight file manager. It was developed to provide a small and fast file manager, which has only a few dependencies from other packages, but including some interestings things like mount partitions, minimalistic burning capability and mass renaming files. MFM use FLTK graphics toolkit.
Main features:
- Selectable shown fields (permissions, users, groups, date and size)
- Various sort options
- Rename group of files
- Change attributes of group of files
- Compress files
- Burn CD/DVD
- Find files by name or by content
- Mount/umount partitions

VNC Session Manager provides a disconnected session manager for VNC.

VNC Session Manager adds the necessary glue code between VNCs two execution modes, enabling XDM-based login to disconnected sessions. This gives a Terminal Services-like login for Unix-based VNC servers.