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Package manager consolidation

April 03, 2023 — BarryK

I have created a tutorial about the three package managers in Easy:

https://easyos.org/user/package-manager-concepts.html

...and they might be joined by a fourth; Flatpak.

Heading toward consolidation of these package managers, the "sfs" icon has been removed from the desktop:

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Clicking on "pkg" used to bring up PKGget, the traditional package manager (known as PPM in the Puppy days). Now, this comes up:

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The "TUTORIAL" button launches the webpage linked above.    

Tags: easy