Open Source Application Packaging Software

The GK3 Tools project is a collection of tools and utilities useful for viewing and modifying the Gabriel Knight 3 data files.

jShrinker is written in Java and can de/compress 7zip*, zip, bzip2, tar, lzma, rar, and gzip formats. It aims to be cross-platform and to provide an easy-to-use interface. It will include these features: batch decompression. *Decompress only

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" :)).

A dynamic package manager with a virtual file system interface. Keep track of files installed from a source tarball and easily remove those files. Simply copying files from /usr/src/{package name} will automaticly create a package.

Darrt provides simple deployment packaging for database code, akin to that provided by JAR, WAR and EAR files in J2EE.

A simple software to extract any valid DBPF file, normally they have package extension. This software extracts DBPF files from any The Sims 2, The Sims Stories, The Sims 3 and Spore using command line and has XML support for other softwares.

DebGUI is a frontend to facilitate and accelerate the creation of Debian packages from source code (and learn in the proccess)

We are a little group from norway who has a unix OS project called elran. And we need a package system like emerge and dpkg/apt-get and that is what we are planning to create now.

Compresses a directory down to a single .pak file. Files must be unpacked using FilePak.

GTK Tools for Debian Packages are a group of graphic tools to manage Debian packages.<p>These tools try to be a complement for Synaptic and update-manager, including a deb viewer, a deb isntaller and others.

JIsoCreator is a ISO9660 CD Image creator, frontend of MKISOFS. JIsoCreator use Eclipse technologies, such as SWT and JFace. It combines the platform independence of Java, with a fast native graphical user interface.

jxmlpkg is a Java based set of tools for generating and installing binary and source software packages that use a new package format, xmlpkg, which use an extensible XML-based metainfo sytem. Support for plugins will also be included.

Mp3 Editing and Auditing Toolkit. This is a toolkit designed to make mp3 collection management on a massive scale alot easier. This toolkit handles everything from massive tagging, to list generatoration and organization.

A set of (Perl) scripts that allows you to optimize backups to S3 by packing files/dirs into a minimal set of archives that are likely to remain stable between backups, even if the underlying files change, thus minimizing the number S3 items.

PeaZip is a free archiver tool. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, BZip/GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP files and more Open and extract 180+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script. Only source code distribution of my improvements by using of Subversion.

A smiple, yet powerful application for package manipulation for most all *nix systems.

PyDar is a binding for Disk ARchive (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) in python using Boost.Python (http://www.boost.org).

RPM Workshop is for the experienced/professional packager. This tool will give the packager GUI access to take a new tar file and create a spec file and RPMS or open an exsisting spec file for updating.

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

Split Files

ZipDB is a program that allows databases to be made easily and efficiently using compressed zip files. An easy-to-use gui is the key feature allowing quick access to all files in the archive, and since the archives are .zip they can always be opened on

Need to package up your compiled program so that it can be install on a Windows or Unix machine? Use this Zip Package Maker. ZipPKG Maker lets you, Install, Uninstall, List and create Zip Packages. ZipPKG Maker is compatible with the output files from

chmc is a free CHM compiler command targeted to *nix chm viewers.

dedup util is a lightweight open-source files packing tool. It is based on block-level data de-duplication technology, and can reduce the data capacity to save storage space. The key feature is no block data collsion with md5 hashkey.

Indexed Tar file creation and extraction program.