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Synaptic vs yaourt

A side-by-side look at Synaptic and yaourt. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Synaptic

Synaptic

Os & Utilities

Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides an easy-to-use interface for finding, installing, upgrading and removing software packages on Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.

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yaourt

yaourt

Os & Utilities

yaourt is a command line utility for Arch Linux that helps install packages from the Arch User Repository (AUR). It serves as a wrapper for makepkg and other utilities to automate retrieving build files and sources from the AUR.

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