Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with macOS. Also available for Linux.
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Chocolatey Alternatives for Linux
Chocolatey is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Homebrew, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Chocolatey and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Chocolatey are Flathub, Synaptic, GNOME Software and Nix Package Manager.
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Chocolatey alternatives are mainly Software Installers, but if you're looking for Package Managers or Software Updaters you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows + Open Source, Linux, Mac and Windows. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Chocolatey.
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- 63 Homebrew alternatives
23 Flathub alternativesFlathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of desktop Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.
56 Synaptic alternativesSynaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.
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Comments about Synaptic as an Alternative to Chocolatey
Most users think Synaptic is a great Chocolatey alternative.
- Synaptic is Free and Open Source
61 GNOME Software alternativesSoftware lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
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Nix is a powerful package manager for macOS, Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup...
Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Other features include full support for shared libraries, sharing between users, and integration with native platform package managers.
44 pacman (package manager) alternativesThe pacman package manager is one of the major distinguishing features of Arch Linux . It combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build system. The goal of pacman is to make it possible to easily manage packages, whether...
50 Advanced Package Tool (APT) alternativesApt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian. The user interface application for Apt is aptitude.
61 Warehouse alternativesWarehouse is a versatile toolbox for managing flatpak user data, viewing flatpak app info, and batch managing installed flatpaks.
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aptitude is a terminal-based frontend for Advanced Package Tool (APT) with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and...
26 Software Manager alternativesA software manager for the Linux Mint operating system to easily install new applications.
Robust package system that manages installation, updates, verification, and removal of software packages on Linux. Includes a library API for development in languages like C and Python. Widely used across Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, and more; released under GPL-2.0-or-later.
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Does not work with Windows