WiX Toolset

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

RPM - RPM Package Manager

•    C

RPM is a powerful and mature command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating Unix software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, and the like. There is also a library API, permitting advanced developers to manage such transactions from programming languages such as C, Perl or Python.

pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager

•    TypeScript

Fast, disk space efficient package manager

Squirrel.Windows - An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps

•    C++

Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your Desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (i.e., Squirrel can manage native C++ applications).Squirrel uses NuGet packages to create installation and update packages, which means that you probably already know most of what you need to create an installer.

npm-check - Check for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies.

•    Javascript

Check for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies. This is the easiest way to use npm-check.

pip - A tool for installing and managing Python packages

•    Python

pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages.

WiX Toolset - Windows Installer XML

•    CSharp

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

Hackintosh-Installer-University - open source tutorial & information collector for hackintosh installation

•    Shell

📢 This is an open source tutorial & information collector for Hackintosh installations that does not charge readers any fee. 📢 We don't want to build a universal installation tutorial and, it's also impossible since every devices are different. We are here because we want to gather information and experiences, we want to build an index for most successful builds in github and make them be discovered more easily. When I was just a newbie, I didn't know how to get start building a hackintosh since I didn't know what's a bootloader and an EFI partition. It took me a really long time to find a helpful build in Github due to the deep location of that repo. So this is the purpose why we created this index.

bashful - Use a yaml file to stitch together commands and bash snippits and run them with a bit of style

•    Go

This is beta quality! Use at your own risk. Use a yaml file to stitch together commands and bash snippets and run them with a bit of style. Why? Because your bash script should be quiet and shy-like (...and not such a loud mouth).

PostgresApp - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac

•    Swift

Postgres.app is a full-featured PostgreSQL installation packaged as a standard Mac app. It includes everything you need to get started: we’ve even included popular extensions like PostGIS for geo data and plv8 for JavaScript. Postgres.app has a beautiful user interface and a convenient menu bar item. You never need to touch the command line to use it – but of course we do include all the necessary command line tools and header files for advanced users.

Packer - Creates identical machine images for multiple platforms

•    Go

Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer comes out of the box with support for the following platforms Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean, Docker, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, Parallels, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware.

OPAM - Source-based package manager for OCaml

•    OCaml

OPAM is a source-based package manager for OCaml. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow.

IzPack - Cross-platform Installer

•    Java

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications. It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers. IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run.

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System for Windows

•    C

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) 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. 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.

Snakebasket - Recursive Python Package Installer

•    Python

snakebasket is a recursive Python package installer that makes multi-package Python development a little easier. It's a layer on top of pip that can resolve and install an entire dependency graph with a single command: sb install. It recursively reads requirements from simple requirements.txt or old-school setup.ph files when sb install is run and decides between conflicting versions and installs the latest one.

Scoop - A simple package manager for Windows

•    PowerShell

Scoop is a simple package manager for Windows. It installs the tools you know and love. It takes care of resolving dependencies. It does not have unexpected side-effects from installing and uninstalling programs.

SDKMAN - The Software Development Kit Manager

•    Shell

SDKMAN is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems. It provides a convenient Command Line Interface (CLI) and API for installing, switching, removing and listing Candidates. Formerly known as GVM the Groovy enVironment Manager. It is suited for (but not limited to) installing Java related development kits. Install Groovy, Scala, Grails, Play or Spring Boot all from one convenient place.

jsvu - JavaScript (engine) Version Updater

•    Javascript

jsvu is the JavaScript (engine) Version Updater. jsvu makes it easy to install recent versions of various JavaScript engines without having to compile them from source.

Mint - A package manager that installs and runs Swift command line tools

•    Swift

A package manager that installs and runs Swift command line tool packages. Mint is designed to be used with Swift command line tools that build with the Swift Package Manager. It makes installing, running and distributing these tools much easier.

ONIE - Open Network Install Environment

•    C

The Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an open source initiative that defines an open "install environment" for modern networking hardware. ONIE enables an open networking hardware ecosystem where end users have a choice among different network operating systems.