Open Source C Application Packaging Software

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip works in Windows 11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. And there is command line version for Linux and macOS. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license with GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check the license for details.

Moved to GitHub.com/gdraheim/zziplib/ The ZZIPlib provides read access on ZIP-archives. The library uses only the patent-free compression-algorithms supported by Zlib. It provides functions that transparently access files being either real files or zipped files, both with the same filepath

ReHash is an easy-to-use console-based hash calculation tool written in C++. It supports many algorithms and output formats and it can be fully configured using some of the many command-line arguments which can be passed to the tool.

UPX Tool is a GUI for the popular UPX EXE Compressor. Windows Programs and Dlls, and DOS Programs can be compressed.

An archive manager for the GNOME environment.

Powerful encoder/decoder for the newly popular Usenet yEnc file format. Features include easy configuration, internationalization, memory efficiency, and an intelligent decoder capable of finding and decoding input files, including out-of-order files.

GNUpdate is a set of libraries and tools that provide universal package management on Linux systems, allowing any distribution to install packages from other distributions, as well as updating the system with the latest versions of installed packages.

UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives on MacOS X.

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

RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. This is a port of the RPM software, including rpmbuild and yum/APT-RPM, to Darwin and Mac OS X

This utility converts Motorola S-record files (namely .S19 files) to binary files and vice-versa. It has several useful features that allow full manipulation of record addressing and output file size.

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

A software administration system for GNU/Linux systems with capabilities for network transparent package management, host-to-host data copying, creating tar archives with embedded signatures, and use as a directory content integrity checker.

Split Files

The TclVfs project aims to provide an extension to the Tcl language which allows Virtual Filesystems to be built using Tcl scripts only. It is also a repository of such Tcl-implemented filesystems (metakit, zip, ftp, tar, http, webdav, namespace, url)

A small program that allow to unpack all 'rar' files in derictory using 'unrar' program.

chmc is a free CHM compiler command targeted to *nix chm viewers.

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

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" :)).

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

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

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.

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.

VFSMGR, Clifford\\\\\\\'s Virtual Filesystem Manager. A utility to be used with the Genesis3D virtual filesystem API, and soon the upcoming Destiny3D virtual filesystem API. This utility provides a complete and professional interface to creatin

Toolchain for automatic Program archiving including the context by analyzing the runtime behavior. The program can later run on a Linux Live-CD.