Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Installers

Fink brings the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg, all with full dependency tracking.

Configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services. Includes fault correction software to automatically restart crashed or frozen JVMs. Critical when app is needed 24x7. Built for flexibility.

This project (licensed under LGPLv3) provides full documented procedures to build PostgreSQL from sources (and some additional extensions / Foreign Data Wrappers: sqlite_fdw, www_fdw, mysql_fdw, ldap_fdw, couchdb_fdw, oracle_fdw, odbc_fdw...) using MinGW-w64 (recent versions of gcc - 4.8.0 or later). It also provides ready made binaries/releases targetting Win32 as well as Win64 (Windows7). Note: Installers are also released to make easy the installation of the PostgreSQL extensions mentioned above in PostgreSQL installations made from the official Windows 7 - 32-bit and 64-bit - installers (those extensions releases - DLLs - being fully compatible with the said installers).

The GlobalPlatform card specification is a standard for the management of the contents on a smart card. Mainly this comprises the installation and the removal of applications. This project offers a C library and a command line shell. Find more information on https://kaoh.github.io/globalplatform/

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

Portable installation of Cygwin that is integrated with PortableApps.com launcher.

ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.

This utility allows an IT professional to install several programs with a single click. It is designed to launch from a network share and suppress any Windows security questions about launching programs.

A full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM, featuring an IceWM theme designer, IceSoundManager (sound events), IcePref2, & tools to manage wallpaper, cursors, keys, window options, & more. IceWMCP has a familiar, Control Panel-like interface.

At this point this project is mainly wpkg which is a replica of dpkg and apt-get that works under Microsoft Windows and Unices. Since version 0.7.0 it works very nicely as it includes most of the important functionality of dpkg (i.e. most everything except dselect functions.) Otherwise, the Unix GNU Windows is expected to be a large set of packages that wpkg can handle. Packages of all the software available under MinGW and GnuWin32 so you can painlessly build a complete Unix like environment under Microsoft Windows.

AutoInstaller is a program which can install and uninstall programs based on the decision of plug-ins. These could include by schedule, at user demand, or a more complex scenario. It uses plug-ins to handle tar.gz, tgz, zip, and rpm files.

jsadmin has now been renamed as xsadmin. xsadmin has the ability to prepare automated remote Solaris/Linux installation for Solaris and RedHat Linux. Newer releases could be found in http://xsadmin.simplenetwks.com.

Checks for new Nvidia Geforce Display Drivers then does an automated unattended install, or with many more options. You can silent install, and only just install the basics, no bloat! Instantly check to see if you have latest driver offering.

InstallBase is now InstallJammer and has moved to http://www.installjammer.com/

TinyTcl is a tiny version of Tcl, for small footprint machines and embeddable/rommable applications. It is derived from Tcl 6.7 and compiles to less than 60K, 10X smaller than Tcl 7 and Tcl 8.

ATC is a system for configuring and controlling the pre and post building of Unix machines over the network. Predominately it uses JET to deploy Solaris hosts and Kickstart to deploy Linux hosts. Post build ATC is used to do configuration control.

This is a library that helps software that uses Abase not spread all over the system. This helps to distribute software without installation and make it easy for a user to keep software organized. Then it can be used in "portableOS" flash drives.

An experimental implementation of the Gentoo package management system (portage) and build environment on Solaris 11/OpenSolaris.

ApacheBuilder builds Apache (with optional modules of Mod_SSL and Mod_Perl) from sources, prompting for config params of location, etc. When done, it starts Apache and verifies it all works ok.

Windows clients to BackupPC. Installations script and all scripts to backup Windows clients via ssh and rsyncd. Cygwin are used. Tested on Windows 2008r2 and Windows 2012r2. Does not work on Windows 7 - Diskshadow are not included in Windows 7.

Disaster Recovery boot environment for Linux, WinXXX, BSD, Solaris http://www.dctools.org

Provides a DOS-based installation for DOS software.

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.

FFChooser (FireFox Chooser) is a small program which can be installed on a preinstalled Windows-System and tells the user what Firefox can do for him and installs Firefox if the user wants to do so.

Fink Tank is a (tentative) GUI for Fink, the project that brings open source software to Mac OS X.