Package Management

Open-source projects categorized as Package Management

Top 23 Package Management Open-Source Projects

Package Management
  1. Homebrew-cask

    🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

    Project mention: Lazarus Release 4.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-11

    At the same time it was deprecated[1] in Homebrew. Hope the mainstream will address the issue.

    [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/199559

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. renovate

    Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io

    Project mention: Wombat - Syntax Highlighting with Rust's Bat Called from Crystal | dev.to | 2025-01-15

    To automate library version updates, I introduced Renovate. Although I'm not very familiar with it, adding the following JSON file to the repository enables it to work:

  4. CocoaPods

    The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

    Project mention: Criando um módulo com Swift Package Manager | dev.to | 2024-08-12
  5. fpm

    Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

  6. patch-package

    Fix broken node modules instantly 🏃🏽‍♀️💨

    Project mention: Installing EmberJS v2 addons from GitHub forks using PNPM | dev.to | 2024-09-16

    patch-package - Lets app authors instantly make and keep fixes to npm dependencies.

  7. Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

    Project mention: Create Your Custom WSL from any Linux Distribution (Part-1) | dev.to | 2024-12-08

    While the ArchWSL and Fedora WSL at MS Store may seem great at first before installing, these distros have often showed compatibility issues and sometimes very weird bugs; even conflicts with scoop or chocolatey apps.

  8. pip

    The Python package installer

    Project mention: Say Hello to UV: A Fast Python Package & Project Manager Written in Rust | dev.to | 2025-04-17

    If you’ve been managing Python projects long enough, you’ve probably dealt with a mess of tools: pip, pip-tools, poetry, virtualenv, conda, maybe even pdm.

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. PDM

    A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards

    Project mention: Say Hello to UV: A Fast Python Package & Project Manager Written in Rust | dev.to | 2025-04-17

    If you’ve been managing Python projects long enough, you’ve probably dealt with a mess of tools: pip, pip-tools, poetry, virtualenv, conda, maybe even pdm.

  11. glide

    Package Management for Golang (by Masterminds)

  12. pip-tools

    A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.

    Project mention: Say Hello to UV: A Fast Python Package & Project Manager Written in Rust | dev.to | 2025-04-17

    If you’ve been managing Python projects long enough, you’ve probably dealt with a mess of tools: pip, pip-tools, poetry, virtualenv, conda, maybe even pdm.

  13. conda

    A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.

    Project mention: Conda init slows shell startup immensely | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-31
  14. pixi

    Package management made easy

    Project mention: Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-30

    > none of the docs really mention this

    Searching for the sister distro you mentioned, this[1] was one of the first links I stumbled upon, which included a link to the ARM ISO[2] and checksum[3] along with this note:

    > No homebrew, they don’t have arm builds, we will include Pixi[4] instead, which is a nice package manager built on the popular conda ecosystem - there’s some good stuff in there!

    [1] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-f...

    [2] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso

    [3] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso-CHE...

    [4] https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi

  15. luarocks

    LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language.

    Project mention: PowerShell Development in Neovim | dev.to | 2024-06-27

    LuaRocks

  16. BaGet

    A lightweight NuGet and symbol server

  17. habitat

    Modern applications with built-in automation

  18. RubyGems

    The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

    Project mention: ⚙️ Building a better Ruby ORM for time series and analytics | dev.to | 2025-02-06

    The following code snippet highlights the real-life use case that inspired me to build a continuous aggregates macro for better time-series data aggregations. It’s part of a RubyGems contribution I made, and it’s still a work in progress. However, it’s worth validating how this idea can reduce the Ruby code you’ll have to maintain.

  19. topgrade

    Upgrade all the things (by topgrade-rs)

    Project mention: The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-22

    You can use topgrade (https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade) to update system, homebrew, npm, python, cargo with only one command. It also works on Linux and Windows.

  20. Paket

    A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories.

  21. bpkg

    Lightweight bash package manager

  22. safety

    Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.

  23. bioconda-recipes

    Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

    Project mention: Azure has broken bioconda CI for 10 days running | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-20
  24. NuGet

    NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.

  25. Gem in a Box

    Really simple rubygem hosting

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Package Management projects? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Homebrew-cask 21,326
2 renovate 18,953
3 CocoaPods 14,698
4 fpm 11,287
5 patch-package 10,792
6 Chocolatey 10,751
7 pip 9,786
8 PDM 8,370
9 glide 8,130
10 pip-tools 7,887
11 conda 6,871
12 pixi 4,381
13 luarocks 3,453
14 BaGet 2,684
15 habitat 2,630
16 RubyGems 2,366
17 topgrade 2,412
18 Paket 2,047
19 bpkg 1,926
20 safety 1,839
21 bioconda-recipes 1,723
22 NuGet 1,576
23 Gem in a Box 1,507

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