Projects tagged ‘installer’

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a tool for creating quick and user-friendly installers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a script-based system that adds a very small overhead, only 34 KB. It features LZMA compression, support for multiple languages, and an easy-to-use plugins system

When you type "perl Makefile.PL" the Makefile is generated by MakeMaker. MakeMaker is a very cross-platform, Makefile generation tool specific to installing Perl modules. It works on every operating system that Perl does, and that means a LOT of ... [More] operating systems. All Unixen, all versions of Windows and yes, VMS. MakeMaker works with many different flavors and versions of make including GNU make, nmake, dmake, mms and mmk. If you're looking for some hard core cross platform code, look no further. MakeMaker is always looking for more testers and contributors using non-mainstream operating systems and makes. MakeMaker hopes to be retired someday, perhaps by Module::Build. [Less]

d-i is the installation system for Debian, as well as several related distributions.

Pacman is Arch Linux's package manager.

Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.

Module::Build is a system for building, testing, and installing Perl modules. It is meant to be an alternative to ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Developers may alter the behavior of the module through subclassing in a much more straightforward way than with ... [More] MakeMaker. It also does not require a make on your system - most of the Module::Build code is pure-Perl and written in a very cross-platform way. In fact, you don't even need a shell, so even platforms like MacOS (traditional) can use it fairly easily. Its only prerequisites are modules that are included with perl 5.6.0, and it works fine on perl 5.005 if you can install a few additional modules. [Less]

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

anaconda is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and some other distributions.

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.

sidux is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, Debian's most modern branch (called "Sid") and free and open source applications. It is a live distro with special focus on clean and easy hard disk install. Strategic milestones and 3-4 planned ... [More] releases timetabled will give stability and accountability to corporate and home users with a demand for bleeding edge software running on modern hardware, and a definable path over time. [Less]

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, media-based net-installs, and virtualized ... [More] installs (supporting Xen, qemu, KVM, and VMware Server). Cobbler uses a helper program called 'koan' (which interacts with Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support. Cobbler can also optionally help with managing DHCP, DNS, and yum package mirroring infrastructure -- in this regard, it is a more generalized "provisioning" server, rather than just dealing specifically with installations. It has a command line interface, a web interface, and also several API access options. [Less]

ISTool is a visual script editor/generator for Jordan Russell's Inno Setup compiler.

A self-contained installer that includes the Ruby language, dozens of popular extensions, a syntax-highlighting editor and the book "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". Platforms: Windows NT/2000/XP.

Sparkle is a module that developers can stick in their Cocoa (Mac OS X) applications (five-step install!) to get instant self-update functionality.

EclipseNSIS is a plugin for the Eclipse platform which enables editing, compiling and testing Nullsoft Installer (NSIS) scripts. The InstallOptions Editor plugin is for editing of InstallOptions files.

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.

Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.

Replicator is a set of scripts to automate the duplication of a model computer running Debian/GNU Linux, with some provisions to take into account differences in hardware (like HD size, video card) and in software configuration (partitioning). ... [More] After the initial configuration, the scripts will create a bootdisk that allow to (re)install completely a Debian box by just booting on the floppy and answering a yes/no question. [Less]

The aim of PHP install system is to make it easy for all PHP programmers to make installers for there scripts which will work. PHP install system is currently not finished, but some of the basic self extracting code is and ... [More] it will be added to sorcefordge soon. The rest will hopefully follow soon after that. PHP install system is designed to use XML which helps make it easier to add on to and also simple to understand. [Less]

Updater is generally inspired by the Sparkle framework (Cocoa) by Andy Matuschak but is adapted to use Java concepts and to be cross-platform.

Faxien provides Erlang/OTP package management. Faxien fetches packages from the remote repository and installs them on your local machine. Faxien also publishes packages located on your local hard disk into a remote repository. Faxien deals with ... [More] two distinct types of packages. The first is the OTP application which consists of src, ebin, etc... The second is an OTP release which is essentially a number of applications combined with configuration, .script and .boot files, and executable scripts. In brief a release is a standalone Erlang service of sorts. [Less]

Debian-derivative targeted at aging desktop computers for non-profit organisations.

Lazy Delphi builder - is the ultimate tool for Delphi, that can do following things: Recompile huge projects with great amount of linked packages, with no need to messing around with configs. Quickly compile somebody's projects and packages ... [More] without opening IDE. (f.e. compile demos from sources without opening IDE) Quickly install components from sources into IDE, without a need to change your Library Path. Integrate with other build-tools. (planning feature) And main plus - ability to strictly specify folders for all types of output files(exe, bpl, dcp, dcu, res). [Less]

cURL Installation Script for UnrealIRCd

This a project to create an installer for D written in D(and old one in C#). The liscense is very free if I remember. I don't think I imposed too many limitations. It wasn't closed source because I do allow people to use the source code(though at the moment project is incomplete).

Assassin is a package manager that help users to install, update, and uninstall packages from Openmoko, or Openmoko community.

xCross is a tool that enable you to build standalone binaries from an haXe/Neko program. By running a single command, xCross will create three binaries, for Windows, OSX (Universal) and Linux with no required dependencies.

Multiple examples of code for applications, examples, and programs used for iPod Touch Hacking, as well as source code for all of them

Welcome to wiz4jWiz4j offers a simple and rapid method to create wizards in java. Its quick and easy, no need to create xml files: just use java code to define the wizard structure. With wiz4j, your wizard will run both in GUI and command line ... [More] mode. API documentation Projects that use wiz4jHounder ScreenshotsThese screenshots belong to Hounder's installer. And the same installer code with command line interface [Less]