Open Source Linux Application Packaging Software

Jar Installer is a java based program for creating self-extracting installation packages through a GUI. Just select your files, logo and create a jar file which can be double clicked for installation.

Extended Slackware package management tools, added new features like those in other distro's package tools (ie rpm, deb, slp, etc..) and provide multiple interfaces including console, Gnome, and KDE.

This project has a lively SVN repository for build recipes, over 1000 F/OSS softwares are available. The tool "pkgbuild" is for building packages on Solaris 11/OpenIndiana from RPM-like spec files. The tool also runs on OmniOS. If you want, you can create new style IPS packages and old style SVR4 packages for Solaris 10. The tool is not updated frequently, but the following "build recipes" for pkgbuild is updated every day. For a few hundred build-recipes see the sub-project "spec-files-extra" or "SFE". We already have stacks of e.g. multimedia players mplyer/vlc or postfix/dovecot/cyrus-sasl/spamfiltering. But there is so much more to be added! Volunteers to the build-recipes are always welcome. Please ask on the mailing list or irc://irc.freenode.org/#pkgbuild Please proceed now with the link below and remember to visit "SFE" on the left and browse through the available packages list in SVN. Or go for one of the binary repositories with ready-to-use IPS packages.

ReHash is an easy-to-use console-based hash calculation tool written in C++. It supports many algorithms and output formats and it can be fully configured using some of the many command-line arguments which can be passed to the tool.

Payload Delivery Vehicle (PDV) is a program that builds an executable that contains a complete package (e.g. and RPM, System V package or tar file) and the commands required to install it. When the executable is run it will extract and execute the payloa

Jar Ajar is a JAR-based self-extractor for zip files. Zip up files and package them with descriptive images and text using Jar Ajar's graphical interface. When recipients launch the resulting JAR, Jar Ajar guides users through the unzip process.

AVD is a continuation of the swim project. The goal is to create a suitable SQL server from swim's not-installed DB, and to maintain the swim client. AVD will be used as a gBootRoot method.

Xinstaller is a program written in C for Linux. It will allow you to make an installer file for your programs. The user will have only to start the executable and to answer some easy questions(mostly "next" :)).

Enables conversion of an applet into a normal Java application/Windows/Linux executable.For this application, the target user is an applet developer. Once he has completed the applet development, he can use this application to create an executable file.

Build System for Java offers an enhanced build environment that ties together deployment instructions, environment configuration and source code as a releaseable entity. A new paradigm for configuration management!

BlackPack is a utility to aid in creating installable RedHat packages (.rpm). The goal behind the project is to make developing for RedHat based Linux distributions more appealing, with an easy to use interface for packaging applications, artwork, media, themes, etc.

A system for tracking the steps to compile and install software. Inspired by the "Linux From Scratch" book. Addresses issues: "What steps did I use to compile 'foo'?, what files did it install? I need to recompile but don't like typing all commands over.

BTS is a Build Template System designed for building packages for th common packing systems in use by current distributions based on a single XML package description. We are finally restarting development after a long break due to NeOS work.

Chestnut package manager is a utility to handle executables and resource files in a transparent, platform independent and relocatable way. Its concept is similar to Apple bundles and Java archives.

DOSConf is an installer to install, update, repair, remove and create installation and patch package. It will be developed for DOS / Win32 platforms and in the future for another operating systems, like Linux.

The Debian's Archive Browser will ease the browsing and searching of package in the _huge_ Debian's Packages list. Written in python, no release yet. keep in touch.

This is a source delta update program which allows you to patch compressed tarballs and retain the original MD5sum. Very much like diff/patch.

A software administration system for GNU/Linux systems with capabilities for network transparent package management, host-to-host data copying, creating tar archives with embedded signatures, and use as a directory content integrity checker.

An Open Source fork of the Redhat up2date client and the NRH-up2date server.

A web-based installer creation system, for use in creating portable installers for web-based (or other) projects.

The project provides a script which permits to generate automatically a small rescue system for Linux (boot floppy, CDROM, ZIP or tftpboot configuration). All usal Linux console commands are available. Only hard disk and network drivers are supported.

Plugins for Maven 1.x (http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/) - manage all aspects of your project (tests, docs, distribution) from a single project descriptor! This project provides plugins that are not bundled with Maven due to differing licenses.

With 'nixstaller' you can easily make installers for unix like systems. It will support several GUI frontends such as ncurses, Qt, GTK2 and FLTK.

Nixstaller is an Open Source project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems. Some of its features are: small size overhead, large compatibility, Lua scripting and few dependencies.

Pkg is a symlink-base package managment system for Linux. It stores each package in a separate directory and symlinks them to their normal places.