Projects tagged ‘installation’ and ‘software_distribution’

The MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin) There are currently about 4500 completed and usable ports, with more being added on a regular basis.

The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian ... [More] tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download pre-compiled binary packages or build everything from source. [Less]

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications. It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers. IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run.

Autopackage makes software installation on Linux easy. Software distributed using Autopackage can be installed on multiple Linux distributions and integrate well into the desktop environment.

Umigumi simplifies the gerenation of custom Linux distributions and their deployment on various media: Flash memory cards, LiveCD, hard disk, etc. Umigumi has been originally developped by the OpenBrick community for the OpenBrick open embedded platform and is now the tool of choice to generate ERP5 Live CDs.

Ruby Production Archive (RPA) will provide packages of Ruby libraries and programs in a form that allows production use, engineered through a stringent process like FreeBSD's or Debian's.rpa-base is a port/package manager designed to support RPA.