Ketarin
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Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates and optionally installs setup packages by monitoring web pages for changes. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date (like a package manager), but rather to maintain a compilation of...
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The latest version of Ketarin (1.9.0 beta) was released in May 2020.
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- L-3-on updated Ketarin
- samve_000 added Lightweight as a feature to Ketarin
- samve_000 added No Tracking as a feature to Ketarin
- samve_000 added Software Installer as a feature to Ketarin
- samve_000 added Package Manager as a feature to Ketarin
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Canneverbe Limited / Florian Schmitz Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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I haven't really found anything that replaces Ketarin. Great for techs that try to keep their software tools updated so that if they do an on-site call at a place with slow or no internet, they still have up-to-date tools. The only caveat is that it is not easy to use with most sites OTHER THAN Filehippo. If it worked with, say, the bleepingcomputer.com download section that would be great.
Every once in a while it stops working with Filehippo and we have to wait until the author gets around to updating it. This last time it took a while, and after it was updated I had to update some of my Filehippo IDs with new(?) URLs.
This unique tool is geared less to keeping your installed apps up to date and more to computer techs to have the latest tools available at all times. Program installers, standalone malware scanners, definition files for AV and Malware tools, etc.
Depending on what you want can GREATLY increase the difficulty. If you just want things available from FileHippo or that someone else has scripted, easy. If you want something else be ready to use RegEx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
I haven't really found anything else like it.
Realize that you have to populate/add the programs that you want monitored . No automatic scanning of your computer like Patch-my-PC. That could be quite tedious. Perhaps there is a way to import a list from another update program.. it does have an import/export feature.
I tried to batch import with a Uniget bundle, having converted the JSON style file to an .xml file, but Ketarin uses a proprietary style .xml. Perplexity tried to bypass Ketarin with a .ps1 script, and basically suggested that I stay with Uniget, but it said that it might be able to create something more suitable if I gave it an example from a single Ketarin entry export.
Ketarin is so good:
[Edited by aazard, October 15]
automatic updates and optional install setup packages by monitoring web pages. I like it!
Amazingly simple and useful, other ones I have tried are full of bloat. Ketarin does what it says on the box perfectly
I have been waiting for something like this for a long time, i used ninite for a while but didn't really like it. Ketarin does what it says perfectly.