Open Source Application Packaging Software - Page 3

Baldi Files Archive is a small archiving tool.

BiGZiP is a graphically rich, Java based compression tool. It is developed around a user interface that is easy and intuitive to navigate. It fully supports zip compression and allows for the development of new compression schemes via it’s APIs

CoolPackager is a program which will take a .tar.gz file and a installation script file and create a self-extracting executable scipt. Install it on your system by typing this command as root: lynx -source cpkg.sourceforge.net/cpkg | sh

EasyDMG2ISO is a small and useful utility to convert DMG files to ISO or CDR format. A DMG file is a kind of Disk Image File commonly used on macOS platform. Sometimes it may be necessary to have the Disk Image in ISO or CDR format for compatibility reasons with other platforms.

FDNPKG is an online update tool for the FreeDOS operating system. It allows to install, remove and update software on a FreeDOS installation using online (http) or local (on disk/cdrom) repositories. It is written by Mateusz Viste for the FreeDOS™ project, but can be used on other DOS systems as well. FDNPKG means "FreeDOS Network Package manager".

A simply installer that based on zlib 1.2.1 as the compression library. Target OS - Win32, language - C++ (MS VC++ 6). It has a simple script language (like MSDOS batch language) and uninstaller. Can write to registry and access to environment variables.

Very simple and easy to use command line tool for compiling and decompiling Microsoft .NET '.resources' files.

A Slackware Linux package manager for X, based on pkgtools. Written in wxGTK.

ZipDB is a program that allows databases to be made easily and efficiently using compressed zip files. An easy-to-use gui is the key feature allowing quick access to all files in the archive, and since the archives are .zip they can always be opened on

Pack files into C source code similar to sharutils. To extract files, compile and run the C source.

jShrinker is written in Java and can de/compress 7zip*, zip, bzip2, tar, lzma, rar, and gzip formats. It aims to be cross-platform and to provide an easy-to-use interface. It will include these features: batch decompression. *Decompress only

AGfUPX is a nice GUI for UPX with many advantages. Selecting a file using drag & drop, shell integration (adding "Open with AGfUPX" option to the context menu of exe/dll files) and redirecting UPX output to a windows dialog box are only few of them.

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.

Arpix is a project to create a library for archiving and compression (LibGarp), and a frontend for it (GnomeZip).

The Arusha Project seeks to provide a framework and/or tools for collaborative system administration of multi-platform Unix sites with many dozens of machines.

BOXENV started in 1994 or 1995 as a software-packaging system, and over the years had evolved into a full-fledged applications environment. Boxenv has a lot of library functions focused primarily on CGI applications but capable of being useful for a

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!

A dynamic package manager with a virtual file system interface. Keep track of files installed from a source tarball and easily remove those files. Simply copying files from /usr/src/{package name} will automaticly create a package.

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.

Blackfisk is an application that does backups. It differs from other backup-software in the way how to use it. The software can handle huge and complex backup tasks.

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.