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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

An archive manager for the GNOME environment.

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)

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" :)).

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".

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.

Payload Delivery Vehicle (PDV) is a program that builds an executable that contains a complete package (e.g. and RPM, System V package or tar file) and the commands required to install it. When the executable is run it will extract and execute the payloa

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

UPMS is based on BSD ports system, it can be used on any FSH 2.x Linux compatible distribution. UPMS have two level of dependencies checking, required and suggested. This two levels makes UPMS to tune all of the packages to optimal or minimal, depend on

iSFV is an easy to use integrity checker for SFV files. Use it to test for corrupt files in packages that come with SFV files. You can also use it to edit or create your own SFV files.

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

pkgin is aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages. It relies on pkg_summary(5) for installation, removal and upgrade of packages and associated dependencies, using a remote repository.

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.

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.

dedup util is a lightweight open-source files packing tool. It is based on block-level data de-duplication technology, and can reduce the data capacity to save storage space. The key feature is no block data collsion with md5 hashkey.

Indexed Tar file creation and extraction program.

libpkg is a library to fetch, install, remove and modify packages in a package management system. It is initialy designed for FreeBSD but could be extended for any system.

makeutil is a set of portable public domain programs designed to support C/C++ projects. It provides tools for build operations outside of the normal compile/link pipeline. It is designed to be unobtrusively included directly in your own project.