cmdok checks that specified commands are OK. If command is OK than it exists in PATH and can be run.
It is a simple, small and portable Bash script. It is useful in software packages that want to check that some commands exist before trying to run them.
See wiki for more information and examples.
pofig - portable shell script for probing base system properties: OS, OS version, kernel version, distro, distro version, architecture.
It detects: 19 operating systems, 11 major linux distros, 13 CPU types.
See wiki for more information and examples.
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.
ProgPorts is an administrative and easy user interface to hundreds of proteomics, molecular dynamics, and protein crystallography programs. It is a hybrid of the prog/setup system, developed at Johns Hopkins University, and GNU-Darwin ports system.
openbechede is a fast and simple way to install OpenBSD packages and their dependencies. With openbechede you can keep your obsd packages updated. Also, you can install packages (and automatically, their dependencies), remove them, fetch new lists of pac