It is an advanced and feature rich Package Manager Frontend.
Main features:
- Software sections (games, office, multimedia, internet etc.).
- Shows selected packages homepages in an embedded web browser.
- Tray Icon which informs about available updates.
- Shows distributions news feeds with an embedded reader.
- Upgrades, installs and removes packages.
- Informs when a selected for remove package is needed by others.
- Shows install/upgrade progress with download speeds and other infos.
- Cache cleaner tool (to free some disk space).
- External sources support (AUR for archlinux, CCR for chakra...).
- Authentication structure requires privileges only for the time needed (using what it finds from kdesu, gksu, beesu, xdg-su or at least an xterm where it launches a sudo...).
- Local packages install with double click or from the main GUI.
- Repository editor tool.
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