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Mamba vs opkg

Mamba

mamba.readthedocs.io

opkg

openwrt.org

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FigureMambaopkg
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published10
Spec score · Package Managers8.8 (#9)6.8 (#91)
PurposeMamba is a fast, robust, cross-platform package manager that manages conda environments.opkg is a lightweight package management system for installing and removing packages.

Plans

Mamba

  • MambaFree

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opkg

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In their own words

Mamba

Mamba manages conda environments across Linux, macOS, Windows, API, and self-hosted setups. It creates and activates environments, installs packages, and runs commands inside them. It works with conda packages and supports most conda commands; its parallel downloads and libsolv solver speed package resolution. The framework includes the mamba command-line interface, the libmamba C++ library, micromamba, and Python bindings. Environment creation accepts text, Conda YAML, explicit, and conda-lock YAML specifications, and micromamba can install conda-lock files directly. The repoquery command searches repositories and can display direct, recursive, and reverse dependencies. Environments are self-contained prefixes that can manage native dependencies across programming languages. Mamba documents verification for package archives and extracted files, while repository index verification remains experimental. By default, it warns and asks for confirmation before transactions run package link scripts that can perform system operations. Mamba is free, open-source software under the BSD-3-Clause license, with lockfile support.

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opkg

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