If you’ve ever used a modern Linux distribution, you’ve likely experienced the convenience of installing and updating software with a single command. Package managers, the tools behind this ease of ...

While seasoned veterans of Windows and the Internet at large will have a reverence of sorts for installing things manually via .exe and .msi, the Microsoft Store is better than having nothing at all.

Debian-based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Debian itself, rely on robust package management systems to install, update, and remove software efficiently. One of the most critical ...

A trio of former GitHub executives and engineers have founded a new startup that brings the benefits of one of the most popular open source package managers to the enterprise. Designed primarily for ...

Looking for a tool to automate installing, configuring, upgrading and uninstalling software packages on Windows systems? Time to check out Chocolatey. I’ve administered both Windows and Linux systems ...

They may not be sexy, but package managers are an integral part of every developer's work -- using the right ones can make you more productive. Read on to find out what -- and where -- they are. It's ...

In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...