Open Source Installers

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

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.

Pexpect is a Python module for spawning child applications; controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. Pexpect is pure Python. Note that Pexpect development has moved to Github: https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect

mk-configure is a lightweight and easy for use build system, written in bmake (portable version of NetBSD make) and POSIX tools (shell, awk etc.).

Both forward-chaining and backward-chaining rules (which may include python code) are compiled into python. Can also automatically assemble python programs out of python functions which are attached to backward-chaining rules. See pyke.sourceforge.ne

vmdkutil is a utility to manage VMware sparse virtual disk files (.vmdk), creating, cloning, merging, etc.

m23 is a free software distribution system (license: GPL), that installs (via network, starting with partitioning and formatting) and administrates (updates, adds / removes software, adds / removes scripts) clients with Debian, (X/K)Ubuntu and LinuxMint. It is used for deployment of Linux clients in schools, institutions and enterprises. The m23 server is controlled via a web interface. A new m23 client can be installed easily in only three steps. Group functions and mass installation tools make managing a vast number of clients comfortable. The integration of existing clients (with .deb-based distributions) into the system is possible, too. Client backup and server backup are included to avoid data loss. With the integrated virtualisation software, m23 can create and manage virtual m23 clients, that run on real m23 clients or the m23 server. Scripts and software packages (for installation on clients) can be created directly from the m23 web interface.

InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer and builder. InstallJammer is no longer under active development.

One-JAR(TM) is a simple solution to a vexing problem in Java: how to distribute an application as a single jar-file, when it depends on multiple other jar-files. One-JAR uses a custom classloader to discover library jar files inside the main jar.

Armadeus is an OpenSource Hardware and Software project based on an ARM core (Freescale i.MX) and Linux. You can consult our wiki at http://www.armadeus.org to join our non profit association or our commercial website at http://www.armadeus.com .

The Indian Linux Project Goal is to build a Indian language enabled Linux distro & applications with support for Indian Languages

Sharp AutoUpdater is a C# component that will automatically update your .NET application. Using XML configuration files, the AutoUpdater component detects if there is a new version of the software, downloads, unzips, and installs the new files.

Applications developed with Kylix usually depend on some Kylix libraries. This project aims to create packages of these libraries for different distributions.

gRpmBuilder is a POWERFUL yet easy-to-use graphical program that will create rpm files and srpm files with a simple interface.

-PROJECT CLOSED- The Krysalis Community Project -was- the home of projects that follow, and can help to follow, Apache-style project guidelines.

Confix is a build tool for source code packages, on top of GNU Automake. It inspects the package's source code, tracks inter package dependencies, propagates checks across package boundaries, and finally writes Automake input files for the maintainer.

This is an add-on to stow. If the "make install" didn't work with DESTDIR argument(or use another installer), stow-jail would close the installer command to the sandbox(unionfs+chroot),in this way all go to the "/stow/package_name" directory.

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" :)).

Luau (Lib Update/AutoUpdate) provides basic autoupdate functionality to software projects, allowing not only software updates to propagate quickly through ones user base but also messages and configuration updates.

EzBasic - A C++ based library, that can be used to make programs using functions as in VB. The library has 25 classes ranging from GUI, Threads, String, Active-X etc.

RDI is a library that gives your application the ability to install its dependencies at runtime. Perfect for plugins oriented architectures. Many kind of deps: RPMs, DEBs, .so, .dll, RubyGems... Easily extensible to new kinds.

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.

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.

The 'jsondata' package provides for the modular in-memory processing of JSON data by trees, branches, pointers, and patches. The main interface classes are: - JSONData - Core for RFC7159 based data structures. Provides modular data components. - JSONDataSerializer - Core for RFC7159 based data persistence. Provides modular data serialization. - JSONPointer - RFC6901 for addressing by pointer paths. Provides pointer arithmetics. - JSON Relative Pointer - draft-handrews-relative-json-pointer/2018, contained in JSONPointer. - JSONPatch - RFC6902 for modification by patch lists. Provides the assembly of modular patch entries and the serialization of resulting patch lists. - JSONDiff - Diff utility for JSON data. - JSONSearch - Search utility JSON patterns. Online documents: https://jsondata.sourceforge.io/

python-apt provides Python bindings for libapt, the backend to Debian's Advanced Package Tool.