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Ketarin allows you to keep your packages up to date. Not every vendor releases their applications using one or more online repositories so Ketarin provides the ability to monitor changes to their website, GitHub or third-party release platform in order to document changes and download the current version and optionally install the update. You can collect information from multiple pages (version, changelog, language, bit-type and so on) to ensure you're downloading the correct application. For some vendors it's as simple as pointing it to the right site, for others you may need to get your hands dirty. This Wiki and the Forum can assist you in making it work for you. For questions with specific apps, please use the Forum.
Ketarin 1.5 introduces a number of new features to make your life easier (or more geeky if you prefer):
- Setup functionality: Allows you to batch install or update existing applications on any computer with a couple of clicks. It does all what InstallPad can do, just in a more flexible way.
- Dual scripting engine: Add custom behaviours to your applications with both Batch and C# scripts.
- Snippets allow you to re-use often used scripts.
- Custom user agents for downloading applications - some websites may require certain user agents in order to download.
- Ketarin internally stores relative paths to files, so that changes of drive letters (USB sticks) will not cause Ketarin to forget where the files are located.
- As of 1.8.5: Support for PowerShell scripts and recursive global variables.
Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates and optionally installs setup packages. As opposed to other tools, Ketarin is not meant to keep your system up-to-date (like a package manager), but rather to maintain a compilation of all important setup packages which can then be burned to disc or put on a USB stick.