Open Source Perl Software Distribution Software

Fink brings the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg, all with full dependency tracking.

The LAMPAS project is a combination of common Open Source tools that provides a unified system from where administrators, developers and other parties can manage a large application cluster. The underlying platform is LAMP based.

SystemImager is software that makes the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines relatively easy. It makes software distribution, configuration, and operating system updates easy, and can also be used for content distribution.

MoviX is a series of 3 tiny -live CD- Linux Distros aimed at MultiMedia playing. eMoviX makes a CD able to play by itself all audio/video files it contains (DivX, XviD, QuickTime, MP3 etc.). MoviX&MoviX2 transform in secs yr PC in a powerful MM box.

Pkgutil, written in Perl and licensed under GPL, is a tool to make installation of CSW packages in Solaris easier. It handles package dependencies so all required packages are installed before the desired package automatically.

Pico/Linux is a Linux distrobution based on PicoGUI, providing a complete Open Source operating system for handheld computers like the VTech Helio

This project has a lively SVN repository for build recipes, over 1000 F/OSS softwares are available. The tool "pkgbuild" is for building packages on Solaris 11/OpenIndiana from RPM-like spec files. The tool also runs on OmniOS. If you want, you can create new style IPS packages and old style SVR4 packages for Solaris 10. The tool is not updated frequently, but the following "build recipes" for pkgbuild is updated every day. For a few hundred build-recipes see the sub-project "spec-files-extra" or "SFE". We already have stacks of e.g. multimedia players mplyer/vlc or postfix/dovecot/cyrus-sasl/spamfiltering. But there is so much more to be added! Volunteers to the build-recipes are always welcome. Please ask on the mailing list or irc://irc.freenode.org/#pkgbuild Please proceed now with the link below and remember to visit "SFE" on the left and browse through the available packages list in SVN. Or go for one of the binary repositories with ready-to-use IPS packages.

A small tool that provides ability to mirror any parts of Debian GNU/Linux distribution and any "apt oriented sources". It takes config similar to apt's "sources.list" and creates local mirror for given sources.

Mrtools (Multi remote tools) are a set of multi-threaded system tools to manage large distributed environments including file distribution collection and concurrent shell script or command execution. MrTools is written in Perl and utilizes ssh and rsync.

The Universal Unix-Installer are 2 perl scripts that makes it easy to create a redistributable install package for binary executables on an unix platform(except Mac OSX). 1 perl script is for gathering the .so files 1 perl script for installing

ATC is a system for configuring and controlling the pre and post building of Unix machines over the network. Predominately it uses JET to deploy Solaris hosts and Kickstart to deploy Linux hosts. Post build ATC is used to do configuration control.

AVD is a continuation of the swim project. The goal is to create a suitable SQL server from swim's not-installed DB, and to maintain the swim client. AVD will be used as a gBootRoot method.

Advisory Check is a tool for monitoring the security of installed software. It gathers security advisories using RSS/RDF/XML feeds, compares them against a list of known software, and alerts you if you're vulnerable. Let advchk read advisories for you!

Andutteye is an open source systems management platform that automates enterprise data centers and keeps them running. With Andutteye you can control your Linux and Unix system from a central point of operation.

ApacheBuilder builds Apache (with optional modules of Mod_SSL and Mod_Perl) from sources, prompting for config params of location, etc. When done, it starts Apache and verifies it all works ok.

Application Version Manager is designed to enable multiple versions of the same application (i.e. Mozilla) to be accessible to a user or developer. The user/developer would simply choose the version required and use avm to load the version required

The Appropriate Software Foundation exists to contribute to the usage and development of software appropriate to the information flows within global civil society.

apt4rpm provides tools to create and maintain an apt, yum or metadata repository. The main tool is aptate which searches rpm repositories storing the rpms in the correct apt, yum or metadata component. If you're looking for the apt client software,

Mad attempt to install an OS into freenet. Yes, BOOT freenet. He he he.

A system for tracking the steps to compile and install software. Inspired by the "Linux From Scratch" book. Addresses issues: "What steps did I use to compile 'foo'?, what files did it install? I need to recompile but don't like typing all commands over.

Utilizing bot-net philosophy in a good way by packaging open source software into highly secured, ready-to-run specialized virtual machines and building infrastructure to manage them. Sort of IT Lego )))) We make IT simple!!!

The CD Sharing Server is a framework for the distribution of software installation media images and their contents over multiple file sharing protocols

Chinese Debian GNU/Linux running on Live! CD

Debian Mirroring Script is a Perl Script for automatic mirroring of Debian GNU/Linux distributions.

Debommender is a recommender system for Debian packages, making it easier for its users to find packages which are relevant to their specific needs.