Text or console apps

glitter

Glitter is a text-mode interface to the RPM package management tool.

GRAB

GRAB is a RPM installation tool used for searching, downloading, and dependancy resolution of RPM packages residing on FTP servers. GRAB will read a config file and cache a database of all the available RPMS on the net.

make_rpm-1.17.pl and RPM (perl module) by Scott Harrison, of Michigan State University

make_rpm.pl - cleanly generate an rpm in a simple one-line command. -- local man page copy

PackRat

PackRat is a console application developed in Java for administering RPM's on Linux.

poldek

PLD native rpm handler, managing dependencies to make installs easier and faster

purp

A ncurses based rpm handler

urpmi

rpm wrapper handling dependencies making installs easier

MacRPM Utilities

MacRPM Utilities is a simple, open source GPL'd bundle of utilities for MacOS Classic who together can display information about and extract files from Red Hat Package Manager archives commonly used for packaging Linux software

RPMinator

stand-alone application for MacOS X for extracting files from RPMs

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OpenPkg

rpm 4.0.3, over-wrapped for cross platform use -- by Ralf Engelschall of perl development reputation at Cable and Wireless

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Last updated: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:19:38 -0500