Packages to create a Unix like environment under MS-Windows
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...
Nixstaller is an Open Source project with the goal to create user friendly and flexible installers that work on various UNIX like systems. Some of its features are: small size overhead, large compatibility, Lua scripting and few dependencies.
Nhopkg is a lightweight and powerfull package manager system for unix like operating systems. Nhopkg can install, remove, update, search and manage software packages (.nho).
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.
A shell script and database containing text files allowing a user to
determine which Red Hat distribution CD contains a specific package.
Limited support has been added for Mandrake and Aurora Linux.
Avoid searching CD's for every rpm package!
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.
PKC (PacKageCommander) is a package manager utility with ncurses and GTK+ interface. You can install/uninstall Debian or RPM packages, or you can configure, build and install a program from a source, and you can make a Debian or an RPM package, and it ca
PAS SiteManager is a web based interface to manage web sites.
It simplify the setup of php web sites with applications using databases.
Features: web site managements, Database Setup, FTP synchronization, Application Package management.
The Arusha Project seeks to provide a framework and/or tools for collaborative system administration of multi-platform Unix sites with many dozens of machines.
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.
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" :)).
SlackGrade allows Slackware users to keep the system always up to date with the latest packages available in the most know Slackware sources on the web, by listing, downloading and upgrading its with just a few mouse clicks, through a nice X-based wizard
The project provides a script which permits to generate automatically a small rescue system for Linux (boot floppy, CDROM, ZIP or tftpboot configuration). All usal Linux console commands are available. Only hard disk and network drivers are supported.
The Gentoo Linux portage system is excellent. However, it relies on broadband access. Portage56k is a program designed to simplfy the emerging of portage packages easily on a system with 56k, if broadband is available elsewhere.