Landscape can be used to manage Ubuntu (virtual) machines, including package management and monitoring.
PCLinuxOS uses the Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic Package Manager, a GUI frontend to APT, in order to add, remove or update packages.
In the meantime, I highly recommend a little-known program named Toast for managing software that lies outside your distro's native package management system.
The most popular package management app for Debian-based operating systems like Elementary OS is Synaptic Package Manager, which these instructions will assume you're using.
About: An open source package management system and environment management system.
We use pip, a package management system, to install the Python modules described above.
While working with this framework, we cover topics such as package management, routing, models, views, controllers, environment management, web interface security, databases, and other core web development concepts.
"With regard to the disposition of application packages, management may wish to retain one copy of the package in a secure location, but the remaining copies should either be destroyed or returned to the applicant," she said.
A lot of the focus for a better package management system is on rpms, debs, epkgs, etc., but there's a large body software specific to platforms that aren't distributions – think CPAN, PyPI, Gems, ASDF, HackageDB, etc.
I love the package management (light-years beyond anything else).
