Synaptic Reviews

MSYS2 is a collection tools and libraries that provide an easy-to use environment for building, installing, and running native Windows software. It includes a command-line terminal called mintty, bash and version control systems such as git and subversion. Tools like tar, awk, and even build systems such as autotools. All of these are based on modified Cygwin. MSYS2's core components are based on Cygwin. However, the main purpose of MSYS2 was to provide a build environment that native Windows software can use. The Cygwin-using parts of MSYS2 are kept to a minimum. MSYS2 provides the latest native builds for GCC and mingw–w64, CPython CMake, Meson OpenSSL, FFmpeg Rust, Ruby, and CMake. Pacman is a package management system that makes it easy to install packages and keeps them updated. This should be familiar to Arch Linux users.

DPKG is a tool that allows you to install, build and remove Debian packages. aptitude is the primary front-end to DPKG. It is more user-friendly. DPKG is controlled entirely by command line parameters. These parameters consist of one action and zero to more options. The action parameter tells DPKG exactly what to do, while the options control the behavior of that action. DPKG can also serve as a front-end for DPKG -deb(1) or DPKG -query. You can find the list of supported actions in the actions section. If such an action is encountered, DPKG simply runs DPKG–deb or DPKG–query with the parameters provided to it. However, no specific options are currently given to them. To use any of these options, the back-ends must be called directly. DPKG keeps some useful information about available packages. The information can be divided into three categories: states, selection states, flags. These values can be modified primarily with dselect.