Best Package Management Application

While apt-get and Synaptic are both tools for managing the apt system, pacman is its own beast entirely. More than 50% of you chose either apt-get or Synaptic, but that 13% vote for pacman is proof that Arch Linux is popular.

  • apt-get 38.5%

  • Synaptic 13.7%

  • pacman 12.9%

  • RPM 11.1%

  • Aptitude 6.9%

  • Other 6.2%*

  • Gentoo Portage 4.3%

  • Yaourt 1.8%

  • dpkg 1.5%

  • SaltStack 1.4%

  • pkgtool 1.1%

  • Nix .5%

  • Conary .3%

*Popular write-ins: yum, yast and zypper.

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