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Browse free open source Installers and projects for Windows and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Installers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Windows installer development tool
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more. -
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Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers
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Super Grub2 Disk
Boots into many systems and GRUB2 ones!
Super GRUB2 Disk helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means. -
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Yet Another Java Service Wrapper
Install java, groovy and native applications as services or daemons
YAJSW is an Apache licensed pure java alternative for tanuki java service wrapper. It implements a multitude of additional functions and can be easily extended with groovy scripts. JSW configurations can be easily ported. -
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Configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services. Includes fault correction software to automatically restart crashed or frozen JVMs. Critical when app is needed 24x7. Built for flexibility.
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VirtualBoxes - Free VirtualBox(R) Images
Appliances of free/open source operating systems for VirtualBox
We provide ready-to-use Oracle VM VirtualBox(R) images for open-source operating systems that can be used for testing and/or security-related purpose, or for anything you wish. News, HOWTOs and much more is available at the project web site. N.B. Newer OVAs are only available through BitTorrent: torrent links are published only on our website. Please search our database in http://virtualboxes.org/images/ -
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GlobalPlatform
Implementation of GlobalPlatform smart card specification
The GlobalPlatform card specification is a standard for the management of the contents on a smart card. Mainly this comprises the installation and the removal of applications. This project offers a C library and a command line shell. Find more information on https://kaoh.github.io/globalplatform/ -
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FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. FOG can be used to image Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Window 8 PCs using PXE, PartClone, and a Web GUI to tie it together. Includes featues like memory and disk test, disk wipe, av scan & task scheduling.
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UBCD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from most CDROM drives on Intel-compatible machines, no operating system required. The cd includes many diagnostic utilities and can also be used to provide shared internet access or browse the web.
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Grafana: The open and composable observability platformGrafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Both forward-chaining and backward-chaining rules (which may include python code) are compiled into python. Can also automatically assemble python programs out of python functions which are attached to backward-chaining rules. See pyke.sourceforge.ne
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InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer and builder. InstallJammer is no longer under active development.
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Unattended installation of several Linux(kickstart,preseed,autoyast) and Windows(2000,XP,2003,2003R2,Vista,7,8,,10,112008,2012,2016,2019,2022,2025). Features: inventory, software management, dhcp-ldap, dns-ldap, php-ssh, syslog-ng, rsyslog, switch managment, ldap browser, pxe manager, central cron management, license management, guacomole integration.
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Unattended, A Windows deployment system
System for fully automating Windows installations
This is a system for fully automating Windows 2000 and XP installations, both OS and applications. See http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ for details. -
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vmdkutil is a utility to manage VMware sparse virtual disk files (.vmdk), creating, cloning, merging, etc.
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innoextract
Tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup
Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine. NOTE: NEW VERSIONS WILL NOT BE UPLOADED TO SOURCEFORGE! Instead, use the official website at http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ -
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nQuake
A QuakeWorld package containing everything needed to play QW right now
NOTE: THIS PROJECT HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. Download from http://nquake.com Source code: http://github.com/nquake QuakeWorld is a very fragmented game. Installing QuakeWorld involves installing Quake, downloading a client, downloading textures, scripts, addons, maps and much more. nQuake does all this for you with a simple online installer. nQuake always installs a completely updated package of QuakeWorld that simply works. nQuake has become the standard within QuakeWorld, so even if you don't like the content of nQuake, it's a very good base for your installation. If you run into problems - simply install nQuake fresh and modify it until you are satisfied. Getting help with issues you bump into will be a lot easier if you started out with nQuake. -
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DCP Setup Maker
Powerful cross-platform install builder
Great and powerful application to generate stable and multi-platform java installers. Watch a demo of DCP Setup Maker's installer being made in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmF5Kyla7Hg Its intuitive UI and exceptional ease of use makes it very easy to build complex installers with large amounts of files. The whole process is done step by step through a wizard-like interface, filling in fields and setting up files to finally build your package. *Required: Java 1.6+ Powered by Java, IzPack, Apache Pivot, Apache Ant, Nuget, launch4j and Stax. Source code migrated to https://github.com/DevComPack/setupmaker -
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One-JAR(TM) is a simple solution to a vexing problem in Java: how to distribute an application as a single jar-file, when it depends on multiple other jar-files. One-JAR uses a custom classloader to discover library jar files inside the main jar.
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openbsd-iso is a set of _ scripts _ to download OpenBSD releases from ftp, and then create the CD/DVD iso images.
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PXES is a Linux micro distribution that will convert (or recycle) in minutes any compliant hardware into a versatile thin client capable of accessing any Unix/Linux XDMCP server, Microsoft Terminal Server through RDP protocol, Citrix ICA server or VNC se
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Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.
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Unix GNU Windows
Packages to create a Unix like environment under MS-Windows
At this point this project is mainly wpkg which is a replica of dpkg and apt-get that works under Microsoft Windows and Unices. Since version 0.7.0 it works very nicely as it includes most of the important functionality of dpkg (i.e. most everything except dselect functions.) Otherwise, the Unix GNU Windows is expected to be a large set of packages that wpkg can handle. Packages of all the software available under MinGW and GnuWin32 so you can painlessly build a complete Unix like environment under Microsoft Windows. -
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A slide show for JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIF, & WMF files; maximizes images without distortion. Folders can be selected at run time, or in advance with arguments or a .picshow file. File name, date of picture, and comment can optionally be shown with image.
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Expect.pm is a perl implementation of the popular Expect extension for Tcl/Tk by Don Libes. You'll also find the IO::Tty and IO::Stty Perl modules here.
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This framework provides the easiest way to build cross platform installers based on Java technologies. Due to its extensible architecture, it can be easily adjusted to fit your needs and allows nice UI interfaces implemented with Groovy or JavaFX.
