Dendro
Dendro is a graphical package manager and dependency hierarchy explorer for Fedora RPM systems.
Package changes are resolved and executed through Fedora's DNF5 system daemon. The daemon owns RPM transaction locking and Polkit authorization; Dendro reviews the structured resolved plan before requesting execution.
- Structured DNF5 transaction review with protected-package removal warnings
- Repository enable and disable through the DNF5 repository D-Bus API
- Native RPM metadata, dependency, file-integrity, changelog, and scriptlet inspection
- Constrained direct HTTPS third-party repository-file addition and deletion on RPM installations
- Flatpak support without a generic host-command escape
Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.34 or later)
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Usage
Dendro is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.34 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.
Running Dendro on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Dendro AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Dendro
If you want to restrict what Dendro can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Dendro
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Dendro AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Dendro and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Dendro in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Dendro AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the Dendro AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Please consider making the Dendro AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/Dendro if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.
If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.