novus
A blazingly fast and efficient package manager for windows. (by novus-package-manager)
lessmsi
A tool to view and extract the contents of an Windows Installer (.msi) file. (by activescott)
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| novus | lessmsi | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 3 | |
| 208 | 1,210 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | 16 days ago | |
| Rust | C# | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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novus
Posts with mentions or reviews of novus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-20.
- Novus - A blazingly fast and futuristic package manager for windows.
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Novus - A fast and futuristic rust-based package manager for Windows that is 3-10x faster than Chocolatey.
That's a great suggestion. I have created an issue for this here and will definitely try to implement this as soon as I can in the next release.
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What's everyone working on this week (35/2021)?
I'm working on Novus, a rust-based, fast, and futuristic package manager for windows. You can check it out here: https://github.com/novus-package-manager/novus
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Novus - A rust based package manager for windows that is 3-10x faster than Chocolatey
Website: https://novuspkg.com
Novus is a blazing-fast, efficient, and open-source windows package manager which is 3 to 10 times faster than Chocolatey.
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Alpha release of blazing fast nextgen package manager for windows
Github: https://github.com/novus-package-manager/novus
lessmsi
Posts with mentions or reviews of lessmsi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
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How to slipstream NVMe drivers into Windows 7 ISO [Tutorial]
LessMSI to extract .msi to get the driver https://github.com/activescott/lessmsi
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Do all driver installation files have to be .msi?
lessmsi works quite well for the few msi's that I tried. Also on github
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Novus - A fast and futuristic rust-based package manager for Windows that is 3-10x faster than Chocolatey.
Just an FYI, the lessmsi project may be worth a look for those trickier installers; its been fairly reliable in my experience! It can be used to extract the msi like you would a zip
What are some alternatives?
When comparing novus and lessmsi you can also consider the following projects:
novus-packages
scoop-directory - A searchable directory of buckets for the scoop package manager for Windows
bevy-unofficial-playground-experiments - :eyes:
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
Image-Shifter - Manipulate images from the terminal
Mahou - Mahou(魔法) - The magic layout switcher.
rusthunter - RustHunter is a modular incident response framework based on Rust and Ansible to build and compare environmental baselines.
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
backdown - A deduplicator
semver - Semantic Versioning Specification