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Welcome to CSW packaging!

What is CSW?

CSW (Community SoftWare) is a free, volunteer effort, to provide quality downloadable binary packages for the currently fully supported versions of Sun Solaris (Currently, 8, 9, and 10). We provide them in the OS-native standard SVR4 package format. These packages are available to anyone who wishes to use them. We have been providing packages for Solaris since 2002!

Our motto, is "to provide a straightforward, easy-to-use experience for the user". To that end, we use pkg-get (similar to the Debian program apt-get) as the preferred installation tool of choice. An alternative tool, pkgutil is also available. It supports pkg-get v3 catalog format

The beauty of this program, is that it eliminates having to manually download a whole suite of packages and libraries, just to get the one piece of software you actually care about.
For example, a simple

pkg-get install openoffice
will download, and install openoffice, plus all its many required dependancies. Please see the pkg-get page for details on how to get started with it.

Docs, FAQ, and other resources

To just start using our software, please see above.

Some of the high level Frequently Asked Questions about our packages, have been answered, in our FAQ page.
For more general "How do I...?", please see our User Guide. (Or to go straight to downloading, see our Mirrors page.)
There is also a general About CSW page, as well as a web archive of our mailing lists

Finally, there is an IRC channel, #opencsw on freenode.net, that is often frequented by maintainers. An AJAX web-based IRC client is available at webchat.freenode.net, if you do not wish to install a local IRC client for yourself.

Recent Packaging activity

Packages updated in the last 7 days: ATOM feed of new packages

(Last check: Sat Jul 4 05:00:00 CEST 2009 )
dhcping 1.2,REV=2009.07.01 DHCP daemon ping program
dnswalk 2.0.2,REV=2009.07.01 DNS debugger
findutils 4.4.2,REV=2009.06.08 A set of utilities for searchin...
ghostscript 8.64,REV=2009.06.28 Ghostscript, a PostScript and ...
git 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Fast Version Control System
git_cvs 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Git tools for working with CVS ...
git_doc 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Documentation for Git
git_emacs 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Git VCS support for Emacs
git_gui 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Git GUI tool
git_svn 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Git tools for working with Subv...
gitk 1.6.3.2,REV=2009.06.20 Git revision tree visualiser
gv 3.6.7,REV=2009.04.05 X graphic user interface for the Ghost...
indent 2.2.10,REV=2009.07.01 C language source code formatting...
jbig2dec 0.10,REV=2009.06.28 decoder implementing JBIG2 bi-lev...
libatk 1.26.0,REV=2009.06.27 An accessibility toolkit for GNOME
libpango 1.24.3,REV=2009.07.01 A framework for the layout and ...
libpango_devel 1.24.3,REV=2009.07.01 A framework for the layou...
libpango_doc 1.24.3,REV=2009.07.01 A framework for the layout ...
mesalibs 7.4.4,REV=2009.06.28 Mesa 3D OpenGL graphics library
nas 1.9.2,REV=2009.06.28 Network Audio System
ntp 4.2.4p7,REV=2009.06.28 The Network Time Protocol Distribution
openssh 5.2,REV=2009.06.30_rev=p1 OpenSSH Secure Shell server
openssh_client 5.2,REV=2009.06.30_rev=p1 OpenSSH Secure Shell ...
perlconsole 0.4,REV=2009.07.01 Evaluate Perl code interactively
pm_archivezip 1.30,REV=2009.07.01 Provides an interface to ZIP...
pm_htmlparser 3.61,REV=2009.06.29 HTML parser class
pm_lexicalpersist 0.98,REV=2009.06.26 Persistent lexical varia...
pm_pathclass 0.17,REV=2009.06.28 Cross-platform path specifica...
pm_rpcxml 0.65,REV=2009.06.28 A set of classes for core data, ...
pm_xmlatomsimplefeed 0.86,REV=2009.06.28 No-fuss generation of...
pngcrush 1.6.19,REV=2009.06.15 An optimizer for PNG (Portable ...
tcsh 6.16.00,REV=2009.06.30 Enhanced version of the Berkeley C...
vsftpd 2.1.2,REV=2009.06.30 A very secure and fast FTP server.

Weekly summaries of new packages, can be found in our newpkgs mailing list archives