I'm surprised that a thread and link to sc0ttman's pkg-cli package manager on the 'old forum' didn't already exist. rockedge, please feel free to move this to whatever Section you think appropriate. And don't hesitate to assign Authorship of this thread to sc0ttman if he wants it.
Pkg - CLI package manager's thread and discussion on the 'old forum' starts here, https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... f0#p985531. I can't do better than sc0ttman in describing it than sc0ttman, so read the OP. Except to note that when sc0ttman wrote "A bit like apt-get but worse." he should have added .
I know zip about apt-get and could use it. Installation provides not only a command-line utility, but your choice of two GUIs. It's already builtin to some newer Puppys and has been used by Devs and Fans to create some applications, whose creation would otherwise have fallen somewhere between more difficult to impossible.
AFAIK, pkg-cli is both Puppy-Version and architecture agnostic: can be used under any Puppy.
For an quick/unofficial way to install pkg-cli see, viewtopic.php?p=45587#p45587. But note the warning.