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Submitted by threethirty on Mon, 2006/08/07 - 6:16pm. Linux

Autopackage makes software installation on Linux easy. Software distributed using Autopackage can be installed on multiple Linux distributions and integrate well into the desktop environment.Autopackage is stable, tested software that has been deployed by high profile projects. It has a strong commitment to backwards compatibility: your packages will continue to install as they add new features, although you may need to recompile them to get the new functionality.

It can resolve dependencies either from local files or from remote servers. It currently has simple support for package updates. It does not support integration with the native package manager although these features are planned for after the 1.0 release.

Check it out at: http://autopackage.org/index.html

You can learn how to install these packages here: http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/

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What do you think of Autopackage?

Submitted by Mark Stosberg on Wed, 2006/08/09 - 4:15am.

Have you actually tried Autopackage? What did you think? I was impressed by Klik, a project with the same goals, but haven't tried Autopackage much yet.

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I tried it and....

Submitted by threethirty on Sun, 2006/08/13 - 4:50pm.

Yes, I did try it nd its not really as polished as I thought it would be. When I went to install the first .package file it didn't do nything for a long time, then the terminal opened and I was barraged with text. I'm used to this kind of thing but a new user might freak out a little. a couple of "y"'s later I had an autopackage something-or-other in my GNOME menu. But I naver got the actual package to install, Autopckage it's self did, but not the program. If you want to try this out I would download the Foo package from their website and install that, it's supposed to be test package.

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