Free packages software for linux

Linux::Distribution::Packages Perl module contains a list all packages on various Linux distributions.

SYNOPSIS

use Linux::Distribution::Packages qw(distribution_packages distribution_write);

$linux = new Linux::Distribution::Packages({format => csv, output_file => packages.csv});
$linux->distribution_write();

# Or you can (re)set the options when you write.
$linux->distribution_write({format => xml, output_file => packages.xml});

# If you want to reload the package data
$linux->distribution_packages();

This is a simple module that uses Linux::Distribution to guess the linux distribution and then uses the correct commands to list all the packages on the system and then output them in one of three formats: native, csv, and xml.
Distributions currently working: debian, ubuntu, fedora, redhat, suse, gentoo, slackware, redflag.

The module inherits from Linux::Distribution, so can also use its calls.

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.

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

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

Requires sudo and good configuration of sudo.

Pdbv output a HTML view of a RPM or dpkg database. Its modular design allows easy addition of others package management database and export format (as xml).
The 1.x.x series are in Bash, the 2.x.x series are in Perl. Obviously, the output generation with 1.x.x is a lot slower than with the 2.x.x. While with the 1.x.x it should run on a daily basis, with the 2.x.x it should run on a hourly basis.
Main features:
- it does not require lucid/gtk+/qt or other big libs.
- it does not require a web server - but it can be used with a web server, as any
- other html files.
- it does not require a X server running, you can use a text mode browser that support
- frames as links.
- it does not require special privileges to access to the output. But access can
- be restricted by using chmod/chown (filesystem) or .htaccess (apache).
- since output is generated by a cronjob, access to the output is as fast as your
- computer is able to read/serve text files.

The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation.
This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).
Notice that this project is not a magical bridge between every distribution in the planet. Instead, this is a software offering better package management for these distributions, even when working with their own packages.
Using multiple package managers at the same time (like rpm and dpkg) is possible, even though not the software goal at this moment.
This project is in beta testing. Please, understand that bugs are expected to be found at that stage, and there are features that still must be implemented in the forthcoming future. Even then, this project is being tested in a considerable number of machines for several months already.
Enhancements:
- A channel --remove-all option was added.
- A bug that made the rpm-metadata loader ignore explicitly provided files in certain situations was fixed.
- A detectsys.py plugin was added, which will automatically detect and include system channels when theyre missing.
- Double conversion of paths in LocalMediaHandler is now avoided.
- German translations were integrated and the French translations were merged.
- The deb backend now uses an underline for the name/version separator.
- A bug in the protected read code for old Python versions was fixed along with a locking issue in the RPM pm