pkg VS japm

Compare pkg vs japm and see what are their differences.

pkg

Package management tool for FreeBSD. Help at #pkg on Libera Chat or [email protected] (by freebsd)
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japm

A package manager that uses curses to provide a friendly UI (by TheAlexDev23)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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pkg

Posts with mentions or reviews of pkg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • Personal FreeBSD PKGBASE Update Server
    2 projects | /r/freebsd | 9 Dec 2023
    pkg.conf(5): HTTPS for pkg.freebsd.org by grahamperrin · Pull Request #2199 · freebsd/pkg
  • pfBlockerNG-devel v3.1.0_19/10
    1 project | /r/pfBlockerNG | 21 Jan 2023
    ``` pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended pkg-1.18.4_3 Name : pkg Version : 1.18.4_3 Installed on : Wed Nov 30 06:03:08 2022 EST Origin : ports-mgmt/pkg Architecture : FreeBSD:14:amd64 Prefix : /usr/local Categories : ports-mgmt Licenses : BSD2CLAUSE Maintainer : [email protected] WWW : https://github.com/freebsd/pkg Comment : Package manager Options : DOCS : off Shared Libs provided: libpkg.so.4 Annotations : FreeBSD_version: 1400073 build_timestamp: 2022-11-07T16:00:12+0000 built_by : poudriere-git-3.3.99.20220831 port_checkout_unclean: no port_git_hash : 64db341f2df5 ports_top_checkout_unclean: yes ports_top_git_hash: 64db341f2df5 repo_type : binary repository : pfSense Flat size : 34.3MiB Description : Package management tool
  • Update: parallel downloads?
    1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 12 Nov 2022
  • OPNsense 22.1.7 released
    3 projects | /r/opnsense | 11 May 2022
    We went back to look at why this happened and found https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1917 which we reported a long time ago. It seems that when py37-MarkupSafe became py37-markupsafe the FreeBSD package tool would mark the new package as manually installed (which it wasn't) so it sticked around ever since then for some people.
  • pkg support for Multithreaded Download?
    1 project | /r/freebsd | 3 Mar 2022
    Fetching multiple packages in parallel · Issue #1961 · freebsd/pkg
  • Is this a FreeBSD Issue / Am I doing something wrong ?
    2 projects | /r/freebsd | 2 Aug 2021
    Apart from that, the pkg source is available here: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg. You can file a feature request there, too. Code is pretty clean IIRC and I'm sure they appreciate patches.

japm

Posts with mentions or reviews of japm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pkg and japm you can also consider the following projects:

NomadBSD - Livesystem based on FreeBSD

dynamorio - Dynamic Instrumentation Tool Platform

japm-official-packages - Official repository for japm packages

webman - Add, remove, and manage different versions of web-distributed software binaries. No elevated permissions required!

GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

mandown - man-page inspired Markdown viewer

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

pkg vs NomadBSD japm vs dynamorio japm vs japm-official-packages japm vs webman japm vs GoAccess japm vs mandown japm vs Vcpkg japm vs nnn