Open Source Unix Shell Application Packaging Software

Usm is a unified slackware package manager that handles automatic dependency resolution. It unifies various package repositories including slackware, slacky, ponce, salix and alien. It also supports slackbuilds.org and will build from source.

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.

A shell based package manager for embedded *nix systems similar FreeBSD pkgtools.

A small proxy for caching apt-get requests for multiple Debian boxes behind a finite-bandwidth link. It builds up a partial mirror and serves later requests for the same file from that cache.

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.

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.

COOK is a software build-automation tool made with a goal of letting you, the programmer, to utilize the most elegant and powerful programming language - Common Lisp - for managing your software builds. You write a recipe file which describes what objectives must be constructed. COOK will load and process this file, then produce either a regular Makefile or a Bourne Shell script, which will actually perform the task of building and installing your targets.

Cmmi helps you to simplify your installation process from '.tar.gz' source archives. You can be a package manager of your local site, if you are not an expert of your OS. Cmmi can make .deb, .rpm, Slackware and cygwin packages efficiently.

Toolchain for automatic Program archiving including the context by analyzing the runtime behavior. The program can later run on a Linux Live-CD.

DebToo - Debian powered from source. Portage-like configurability brought into Debian with the goodies known to Gentoo users: USE flags, optimised packages, hand picked patches, fine grained tweaking performance, inherted configurations.

We are a little group from norway who has a unix OS project called elran. And we need a package system like emerge and dpkg/apt-get and that is what we are planning to create now.

EPT (Emacs Package Tool) is full userspace package managing tool for GNU/Emacs.

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.

MAPis is a script that will install MySQL, Apache, and PHP automagically on your system.

Meta Backup is a simple wizard that lets you make a DEB meta-package off all installed applications and repositories/PPA's on all your Debian/Ubuntu/Derivatives system. Creating a backup takes only 20 seconds. ("View all files" for cli,gtk,kde deb

Nhopkg is a lightweight and powerfull package manager system for unix like operating systems. Nhopkg can install, remove, update, search and manage software packages (.nho).

Simple backup solution for *Nix systems. Created using Bash scripting.

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.

Packad is a tool that it aims at to manage applications developed for GNU/Linux and follows standards GNU as configuration, compilation and installation.

Do you hate having a few giant directories that hold all of your packages? Do you hate installing something only to find that it doesn\'t work properly, and it doesn\'t have a make uninstall? If so, this script is for you.

Created as a more sensible alternative to MacPorts, Fink, and Homebrew, Pacmac was inspired by Archlinux's pacman, but is not a port. All files except packages are plain text, and all executables are scripts. No compilers are necessary to create packages, just request the package by name and Pacmac will resolve the dependencies for you.

RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. This is a port of the RPM software, including rpmbuild and yum/APT-RPM, to Darwin and Mac OS X

Reap repackages open-source software to remove the redundant bits and use dependencies in their places.