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Mamba vs urpmi

Mamba

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urpmi

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FigureMambaurpmi
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published11
Spec score · Package Managers8.8 (#9)7.9 (#42)
Package queriesThe mamba repoquery command searches repositories and can show direct or recursive package dependencies and reverse dependencies.The urpmq tool queries the urpmi database and can check RPM packages in official repositories.
PurposeMamba is a fast, robust, cross-platform package manager that manages conda environments.Mageia describes urpmi as its default dependency resolver for installing RPM packages and updating the system.

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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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urpmi

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