Open Source Unix Shell Installers - Page 7

Power acpid is an acpi (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) daemon designed to be more functional and improve on the design of the current acpid. Power acpid is very loosely based on work from acpid.sourceforge.net.

A Script for All Seasons: ProcessControl allows advanced monitoring, launch, shutdown and restart of applications in a UNIX(C) environment. Written in BASH, PC will do (among other things) a timed shutdown of your application followed by a restart.

Programming Utilities written for quicker development processes. Distributed in one big package. All GPL.

Project Naranja will uses Padlock Security of VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboards in order to provide a toolkit to set up and use encrypted filesystems with Linux. NOTE: Files are now hosted at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/naranja/

Prometheus is a package manager and build script intended for use by the Linux from Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) audience.

pmgr is a package management system for the Python Language. It is inspired by Portage, the Gentoo Linux PMS. It uses Pythons distutils to install source packages, but also provides its own powerful framework for non-distutils packages.

This is a grimoire containing Python related spells for the sorcerer-gnu-linux distribution.

Ramdisk Rescue allows Embedded Linux to be installed to a flash card (SD, MMC or CF) using a handheld, without requiring a separate computer to format the card.

Relis-G is an automatic software installer for computational grids, based on shell scripts and the Globus Toolkit, with features of transparency of machine type and administration policy of servers.

rookie-star is a project, intended for newcomers, to do automatically some of the post-installation configuration in a Mandriva Linux operating system (e.g. adding repositories, installing some useful packages, etc).

Runnix is a kexec/syslinux based loader for booting linux systems. It supports a wide range of unique features and can be easily customized and extended. Automatic updates (even over a network), image verification, and failover are all supported.

SINP uses SlackBuild scripts found at slackbuilds.org and the native Slackware package manager to create "source" packages for Slackware.

A simple and useful installer for Linux-based distros, using dialog as GUI. Depends of util-linux, coreutils, awk, sed and a Bourne-like shell.

SIn is an interface to building and installation of "tar.gz" source distribution of software, to maintain multiple versions and control product installation and activation, in a system (unix) and distribution (linux) independent way.

A cross-platform server installer tool.

Securix GNU/Linux is Linux distribution based on Hardened Gentoo with essential security patches and system improvements which deliver secured linux distribution by default. Our goal is to create easily manageable, ultra-secure operating system immune against most vulnerabilities and attacks. Please visit www.securix.org for more information. SF is acting as backup site. In case of primary server unavailability this server will come in place.

Setab is shell script that create self extracting tar archives.

For cases when things like puppet, chef, cfengine, ansible, bfg2 etc are overkill and/or all we want to do is provision and not do constant configuration management a simpler shell-script based approach is useful. This isn't recommended for deploying production servers or mission critical sorts of things, but as a quick-and-dirty get-things-done for a DIYer it makes sense.

Sherman is a tool designed to aid in the deployment of Win9x workstations and software within an organization. The linux-based bootdiskallows for the unattended installation of Win9x, while the client provides basic software packaging services.

Slack FTP Install is a method of installing the Slackware Distribution via ftp.

Provides Slackware Linux automatic installation. Supported versions: Current [CVS only] - 10.2 - 10.1

This is a simple shell script to download, compile and create Slackware packages of GNOME desktop. This is intended to be as non-interactive as possible and updated after each GNOME release (development and stable), turning easy test and develop GNOME.

An automated packaging tool for Slackware Linux with automatic downloading of packages

This is a simple shell script to download, compile and create Slackware packages of the X Window System. This is intended to be as non-interactive as possible and updated after each X release (development and stable), turning easy test and develop X.

Extended Slackware package management tools, added new features like those in other distro's package tools (ie rpm, deb, slp, etc..) and provide multiple interfaces including console, Gnome, and KDE.