Tarballs

The gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data from corrupted gzip files (including tarballs) through a program called gzrecover. gzip Recovery Toolkit package is still very experimental at this point. 99% of "corrupted" gzip archives are caused by transferring the file via...

Decrypt and Extract Here Service Menu installs a service menu for Konqueror that decrypts and extracts the contents of encrypted tarballs. Once install, a "Decrypt and Extract Here" entry is added to the Actions context menu in Konqueror. This entry will only appear for the file extensions...

pmpkg provides a script and definitions to build SysV style binary packages for Solaris from source tarballs in an automated way, somewhat similar to ports or ebuilds. pmpkg aims for reuse of system packages where possible and a minimalistic dependency set. Whats New in This Release: - This...


Platforms: *nix

Fink is a package manager that downloads source tarballs from mirror sites, builds them and installs them into a separate directory hierarchy managed using dpkg. It is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main...


Platforms: *nix

StuffIt Archive Manager gives you all the features you need to backup, share, archive, encrypt and shrink your photos, music, and other documents without compromising quality. You can create both Zip and StuffIt X Archives. StuffIt's advanced technology specializes in the compression of MP3, PDF...


Platforms: Mac

mrjob is a Python package that helps you write and run Hadoop Streaming jobs. mrjob fully supports Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which allows you to buy time on a Hadoop cluster on an hourly basis. It also works with your own Hadoop cluster. Some important features: * Run jobs on...


Platforms: *nix

AccountsDialog provides an application to view and modify user account information that is provided by the AccountsService. Runtime dependencies: * The AccountsDialog uses a DBus system service called org.freedesktop.Accounts to obtain user information. Tarballs can be found here * The apg...


Platforms: *nix

jhbuild is another set of scripts for building GNOME 2. They are still a little rough around the edges, but may still be useful to you. They don't enforce any particular checkout, build or install directories for your gnome2 setup (this is deduced from the config file). You must have Python >=...


Platforms: *nix

PyPI can go down, package maintainers can remove old tarballs, and downloading tarballs can take a long time. pip2pi helps to alleviate these problems by making it blindingly simple to maintain a PyPI-compatible repository of packages your software depends on.


Platforms: *nix

Aleph One is an Open Source 3D first-person shooter game, based on the game Marathon 2 by Bungie Software. Aleph One was originally a Mac-only game, but there is now a cross-platform version based on the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library, that should in theory run on all systems supported...


Platforms: *nix

Crash Recovery for Linux sounds a bit superfluous. Linux is regarded as one of todays most stable Operating Systems. In the case of some hardware failure like a broken disk it can however be handy. Of course your machine doesnt have to have linux installed to make use of the CRK kit. There are...


Platforms: *nix

glucopy-glurestore is a set of scripts for copying and restoring a fully functional GNU/Linux (or other Unix-like) system. The glucopy script will back up all system content (system and user files), while the glurestore script will partition and format an identical system, restore the system...


Platforms: *nix

vcs-load-dirs is a tool to automate and simplify the loading of software into version control systems. The project is designed primarily for importing from a non-version-controlled upstream, such as processing release tarballs. While a bit of scripting can help some version control systems...


Platforms: *nix

IEEE1394Diag is a GUI application that presents a graphical view of an IEEE1394 network and provides the ability to perform common 1394 operations. You can obtain the latest ieee1394 drivers and libraw via svn as follows to get the driver svn checkout http://svn.linux1394.org/linux1394/trunk/...


Platforms: *nix

Sencap is 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). Uninstallation of encapped software is quick, reliable and easy. Encapping is best...


Platforms: *nix

Courier Authentication Library is an API toolkit for implementing password validation and account metadata lookups. Copies of this library code used to exist in other tarballs: Courier, Courier-IMAP, and SqWebMail. Building and installing any of these packages wouldve automatically installed this...


Platforms: *nix

Unixmail for Windows is a package of unix mail tools ported to MS Windows (Win32), and bundled together with an easy-to-use installer. The bundle currently includes fetchmail, mutt, aspell/pspell, sSMTP, and GnuPG. The existance of this project in effect turns these tools into a cross-platfrom...


Platforms: Windows

Trac is a minimalistic approach to web-based management of software projects. Its goal is to simplify effective tracking and handling of software issues, enhancements and overall progress. All aspects of Trac have been designed with the single goal to help developers write great software while...


Platforms: Mac

You know these misformatted mail or news messages, with full quotes, too long signatures, and lots of exclamation marks? They get on your nerves day by day? That's what this script is for. Please see the documentation for the details. TOFU Protection Mini-Howto: * Step 1: INSTALLATION Put the...


Platforms: *nix

There you have it everyone. The WebTorrent 0.1 Beta2 has been released. After a kind soul warned me of corrupt tarballs, all releases have been reuploaded and tested. Beta2 includes a fix for a major design flaw whereby WebTorrent eventually stops working because of file oversizing. This has been...


Platforms: *nix