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A-A-P A-A-P makes it easy to locate, download, build and install software. It also supports browsing source code, developing programs, managing different versions and distribution of software and documentation. aproc aproc displays some information about all pcm devices of a soundcard from the alsa proc tree on console. apt-history apt-history logs the changes of /var/lib/dpkg/status when installing, removing, upgrading packages with apt-get. APTonCD APT removable repository creator and package backup tool for Debian based systems. This tool will allow you to create a media (CD or DVD) to use to install software via APT in a non-connected machine, as well upgrade and install the same set of softwares in several machines with no need to re-download the packages again. aptsamever aptsamever is a Debian APT cache maintance tool. It lists or removes old duplicate versions of packages installed by apt-get. Beyond LinuxFromScratch a project with the aim of assisting users from where LFS left off. It endeavours to assist users to develop their systems in line with their needs by providing a broad range of instructions for installing and configuring various packages on top of a base LFS system BlinDIA BlinDIA provides an easy and alternate installer for the Debian OS which is designed especially for blind people. This installer can be run from within a live CD such as GRML. The installation script is portable, extendable, and it only asks a few questions before it runs a debootstrap session to install automatically a new Debian GNU/Linux system. It also automates and enhances the installation of blindness-related support (such as brltty), so that after rebooting, the PC you will immediately have Braille support at the boot prompt. Bootset creates a boot diskette set according to a text file that lists the diskette image files you wish to copy. You may use it to create Linux boot diskettes from Windows Caml-get Caml-get is a tool to distribute and get Objective-Caml code, in a way similar to the apt-get utility. Cinch Cinch is a general purpose, simple to use and maintain Linux installer. It was written because there are presently no distribution neutral lightweight Linux installers. It utilizes a small ram-disk image that walks the user through a series of steps to first install a core file system, then do a basic configuration. It has been developed exclusively for cAos, but it is open source, so other distributions can take advantage of this innovation. It is lightweight, and easy to maintain and use. Clonezilla-SysRescCD Clonezilla-SysRescCD is a Linux multi boot backup/restore and rescue CD, combining "Clonezilla Live" and "SystemRescueCD" in one CD. Clonezilla-SysRescCD provides both a CD ISO and a tar archive of the source code to create and customize it yourself. Crash Recovery Kit a tool which can recover your crashed PC Current a server implementation for Red Hat's up2date tools. It's designed for medium-sized departments to be able to set up and run their own up2date server, feeding new applications and security patches (RPMs) to workstations and servers debian-builder Debian-builder is a Perl script that can be used to rebuild any Debian package from source. It correctly handles downloading any required dependencies and cleans up after itself. DPHYS DPHYS is aimed at creating an installer for (re-)installing many Debian Linux systems with Debian 3.1 (sarge) without having to baby-sit the interactive installer for an hours time for each machine. FAI Fully Automatic Installation: a non interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary FixInst a little installer for installing software e.g. games. It is written in C++ with GTK2 and works also as a console program Free, Open-source Ghost Free, Open-source Ghost (FOG) is a computer imaging suite that is designed to be a free alternative to Ghost or Zenworks. It can be used to image Windows XP and Vista PCs using PXE, DHCP, PartImage, and a Web GUI to tie it all together. GNOME interface for YUM A GNOME interface program for easier use and setup the YUM installer. GNOME System Tools a fully integrated set of tools aimed to make easy the job that means the computer administration on an UNIX or Linux system. They're thought to help from the new Linux or UNIX user to the system administrators. The GNOME System Tools are free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License gnome-linuxconf gnome-linuxconf is a GTK based graphical frontend to Linuxconf. It supports most of the features Linuxconf offers, and is being actively developed to support all of them. GNU Stow a program for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) whilemaking them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local) gslapt A GTK version of slapt-get. guess_install a small Perl script which looks at the files in the current directory, and automatically installs them in the correct locations (bin/, share/man/, and share/doc/) gui-apt-key This package provides a graphical frontend to the apt-key program which is used to maintain digital keys for the Debian archive since etch. It is meant as a utility to help administrators not used to GnuPG and digital signatures. guinstaller to simplify the process of installing Linux source code. All you need to do is to download the gzipped program that you wish to install and then run guinstaller and open the file. After some configuration (Where to put the files, etc.) the program is compiled and installed GWARE Project The GWARE project is a small team of 3rd party Slackware developers focused on creating a robust, unintrusive GNOME package for Slackware Linux. The default GNOME installation on Slackware was incomplete, and has now been dropped completely. The GWARE project formed to ensure Slackware users who wanted GNOME that it would remain available, up-to-date, and include important capabilities left out of the official installation (such as support for CUPS printing). It is a priority to integrate with an existing installation seamlessly. If an official package is replaced, it's because GNOME requires it. Such replacements (upgrades) should always be inconsequential. install_latest_kernel automates the process of fetching, patching, configuring, building, and installing Linux kernels and updating bootloaders Installation Utility keeps track of software installed from sources, so you can uninstall, update, or simply view what packages you have installed, quickly and easily InstallBase Multi-Platform Installer a multi-platform GUI installer designed to work on Windows, Mac and virtually any flavor of UNIX / Linux JumpBox vTiger CRM JumpBox vTiger CRM is a JumpBox virtual appliance with a pre-configured installation of the vTiger CRM system. The appliance has a browser-based administration console for the initial hostname config, and can consume updates to the entire OS, database, and application stack. Kaizen Kaizen is a framework for managing the development and deployment of customized Linux-based installations. It simplifies the process of integrating the many different software programs and libraries that comprise a functioning operating system. Its main component is RPMDE, the RPM Development Environment, which provides a Web interface to an automatic build daemon which supports multiple build servers. Karoshi a point and click server setup for secondary schools running Mandrake Linux 10 on the servers and Windows 2000/XP on the clients. It aims to allow a user who is not a Linux expert to get a server up and running in under an hour with minimal Linux knowledge klik klik is an easy way to download and run software, even while running as non-root user or from a live CD. Because one software package is just one compressed image file, you can always delete software packages without causing any problems for other software. Konstruct Konstruct is a build system which helps you to install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install". Kudzu Kudzu is the Red Hat Linux hardware probing library, and the associated configuration program. The probing library is used by various system utilities, such as anaconda, Xconfigurator, and hwbrowser. The tool runs at system boot time to determine what hardware has been added or removed from the system. linstall can install tar.gz packages and create uninstall files for use later. It can also track files installed in a make install operation and create uninstall file for those compiled packages as well Linux Live a set of bash scripts which allows you to create own LiveCD from every Linux distribution. Just install your favourite distro, remove all unnecessary files (for example man pages and all other files which are not important for you) and then download and run these scripts ln_local a simple shell script for managing the installation of software packages (typically in /usr/local). It's a program between stow and lndir/cleanlinks Luau provides basic autoupdate functionality to software projects on a decentralized basis, allowing not only software updates to propagate quickly through ones user base but also messages and configuration updates. It can also be used as a software repository to retrieve software packages both new and old makepack Makepack is a Makefile which together with a settings file and some simple rule files are able to download, compile and install software for your Slackware installation. As the installation is done using checkinstall a Slackware package is also created at the same time. The big strenght of makepack is that it has mechanisms to keep track of dependencies when downloading and installing software. MoviXMaker-2 MoviXMaker-2 is a simple GUI or command line utility which purpose is to create customized bootable disk images of eMoviX, MoviX or MoviX². Nixstaller With 'nixstaller' you can easily make installers for Unix-like systems. Some of the project goals: support for many different platforms, support for different (optional) frontends used by the installer (currently FLTK, ncurses, GTK 2, and Qt are planned), ease of use for the install creator and the end user, different ways of installing (extract files to a location, compile software on the user's system, and maybe even integration for the package manager running on the user's system). NRH-up2date NRH-up2date is a collection of utilities and instructions to use RedHat's up2date client without using/needing the RedHat network. nstow nstow is a reimplementation of Bob Glickstein's stow package management Perl script in C. NVIDIA Dock NVIDIA Dock is a tray icon for easy management of the settings for NVIDIA video cards. Double clicking opens the nvidia-settings control panel installed by the official NVIDIA drivers. It will also display the card GPU temperature in a tool tip and on the menu if the video card supports it. open PC server integration opsi (open PC server integration) is a software management and deployment system. It consists of an automatic software deployment system for Windows based PCs, a Linux based depot server which holds the software packages and configuration information, and automatic OS installation. paco pacKAGE oRGANIZER: a simple, yet powerful tool to aid package management when installing programs from source code paella an installation/configuration management system centered on being able to easily define, configure, maintain and update systems and networks PICA Perl Installation and Configuration Agent: designed to assist administrators manage their servers. It features file installation (with conditionals both in target machines and in the content itself), diff, removing, and PIFIA, the PICA Framework for Intelligent Alarms pkgusage lists all packages you have installed on your system with a number telling you how many days ago you last accessed any of the files in the package Plume provides an easy way to create diskless X terminals; based on Debian for the terminals root filesystem but working with anything qinstall-light qinstall-light is a package collection and a powerful installer for Slackware Linux. It helps administrators to install and run a Qmail-based email server that is powerful, secure, scalable, and reliable out of the box. It installs all the programs required by the server to run properly. QTParted a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux rpmdep makes it easier to install a package from a set of provided RPMs Ruby Update a simple script written in the Ruby programming language. Its purpose is to help keep up with new software releases for those of us who install by source Scitech Display Doctor (commercial) Scitech Display Doctor is a graphics utility package that will improve your PC's graphics performance, ensure that applications run correctly and fix many common graphics problems. scsiadd lets you add and remove scsi devices from the Linux scsi subsystem on the fly Sencap a simple ENCAP software manager. Encapping is a method of installing software from source tarballs into private trees (bin, lib, man, share) and symlinking them to the system tree (e.g. /usr/local) sinstall an easy-to-use Perl script to install source packages. It can be used to extract, build, install, and uninstall source packages, and to save time when compiling multiple packages. It can also install cvs source packages and apply diff patches SlackPkg a tool for installing or upgrading packages through network. You can make a minimal installation of Slackware Linux and after that install additional stuff from a Slackware mirror slackrep slackrep is a handy reporting tool for the Slackware Linux distribution. It generates reports about the status of your packages. You can, for example, check what patches are pending to install or check the integrity of your installed packages. srcpkg a small utility for managing installation/removal of source packages. it was inspired by GNU Stow, Depot, etc., but is designed to work around the limitations of other source package managers, specifically, their inability to handle large complex interdependent packages, such as Gnome and KDE SuckSlack an ftp Slackware Linux installer project. Currently it consists of two parts: the modified second Slackware installation flopy "install.2" and a patched version of pkgtool, which provides ftp install capability using wget syncopt syncopt is a simple utility for keeping various 3rd party application packages installed on multiple machines. System Configurator System Configurator is a standalone program which is designed to be run after software installation has occurred on a Linux computer. It is designed to integrate well into System Installer and System Imager. System Installation Suite a collection of open source software projects designed to work together to automate the installation and configuration of networked workstations. These software projects fit around a modular design framework designed to be cross-platform, operating system independant, and scalable from a single workstation to a thousand node collection of workstations Tresys Brickwall Tresys Brickwall is a system utility for configuring SELinux. A simple point-and-click GUI builds custom configurations for many popular network-facing services like Apache, Postfix, and sshd. Access to network resources for each service can be easily customized, and additional services can be added with no knowledge of SELinux. Three editions are available: Standard (free for RHEL 4 & 5), Professional (free for Fedora, per-seat license for RHEL), and Enterprise (allows network management of multiple groups of machines, per-seat license for RHEL). uninst a tool for creating uninstall scripts. It scans file system (or its part) before and after installation of some new software and automatically creates uninstall script from differences of these file lists Upgrade-oldest selectively upgrades Debian system, upgrading packages with oldest most significant version numbers XPloy (commercial) sets a new standard for Linux server administration.Its GUI makes Linux much easier to use, and at the same timegiving the system administrators full control over the servers XStow a replacement of GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions xterminals toolkit is a kit to install diskless X terminals using Linux. All terminal configuration is stored on the server Zero Install makes software installation not merely easy, but unnecessary. Users run their applications directly from the Internet from the software author's pages Zero Install Injector The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for users to install software easily and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a program's interface description and chooses suitable versions of the program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs) according to the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use", etc).
