Swaret

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Swaret

Developer(s)	Michael Manry
Initial release	2001; 20 years ago (2001)
Stable release	1.6.3 / October 2006; 14 years ago (2006-10)
Written in	Shell script
Operating system	Slackware and derivatives
Platform	Linux
Type	Package management systems
License	GPL
Website	swaret.sourceforge.net

Swaret was a program for the Slackware Linux distribution that resolves dependencies.^[1][2] Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features[]

• True library dependency resolution
• Rollback capability^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website