Package Management
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[[Lunar Linux]]'s packagement system is unique in the way that all the applications are compiled directly from source-code. | [[Lunar Linux]]'s packagement system is unique in the way that all the applications are compiled directly from source-code. | ||
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Other Package Management systems known are [[wikipedia:rpm|RPM]], [[wikipedia:portage|portage]]. | Other Package Management systems known are [[wikipedia:rpm|RPM]], [[wikipedia:portage|portage]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:50, 29 June 2007
Package Management
Package Management is the general name used to describe the art of installing, removing and updating software packages. Often this is the key component of the Operating System.
Lunar Linux's packagement system is unique in the way that all the applications are compiled directly from source-code.
Both the lunar and theedge package provide this feature for Lunar Linux. These two are mutually exclusive and contain the same tools. Lunar is the stable version and theedge the development branch.
