It helps you build packages quickly and easily (Packages like RPM and DEB formats).
fpm is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
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It is a repository of software for the Python programming language. It helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Package authors use it to distribute their software.
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.