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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.
A web-based IRC client is available at http://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: Fri Mar 12 03:00:00 CET 2010 )
bind 9.7.0,REV=2010.02.17 ISC BIND DNS main package
bind_chroot 9.7.0,REV=2010.02.17 ISC BIND DNS chroot package
bind_devel 9.7.0,REV=2010.02.17 ISC BIND DNS development package
bind_utils 9.7.0,REV=2010.02.17 ISC BIND DNS utilities package
cupsd 1.4.2,REV=2010.03.04 CUPS daemon
gflags 1.3,REV=2010.03.03 a library that implements commandlin...
gnomekeyring 2.28.2,REV=2010.03.05 Stores passwords and encryp...
gtar 1.23,REV=2010.03.11 GNU tape archiver
gxmessage 2.12.4,REV=2010.03.10 An xmessage clone for GTK base...
gzip 1.4,REV=2010.01.28 GNU zip
libbind 9.7.0,REV=2010.02.17 ISC BIND DNS library package
libev 3.9,REV=2010.03.09 A high performance event handling lib...
libx11 1.3.2,REV=2010.03.08 X11 client-side library
libx11_devel 1.3.2,REV=2010.03.08 X11 client-side library deve...
libxau 1.0.4,REV=2010.03.08 X11 authorisation library
libxau_devel 1.0.4,REV=2010.03.08 X11 authorisation library de...
libxcb 1.5,REV=2010.03.09 The XCB library
libxcb_devel 1.5,REV=2010.03.09 The XCB library development pa...
libxcb_doc 1.5,REV=2010.03.09 The XCB library documentation
libxdg_basedir 1.0.2,REV=2010.03.10 Implements functions accor...
libxext 1.1.1,REV=2010.03.08 X11 miscellaneous extensions library
libxext_devel 1.1.1,REV=2010.03.08 X11 miscellaneous extension...
mercurial 1.5,REV=2010.03.07 Mercurial
mpg321 0.2.11,REV=2010.03.10 A Free, fast fixed-point math rep...
namebench 1.2,REV=2010.03.09 DNS benchmark utility
openexr 1.6.1,REV=2010.03.04 High dynamic-range (HDR) image fi...
openexr_devel 1.6.1,REV=2010.03.04 High dynamic-range (HDR) im...
openexr_doc 1.6.1,REV=2010.03.04 High dynamic-range (HDR) imag...
openexr_rt 1.6.1,REV=2010.03.04 High dynamic-range (HDR) image...
pca 20100309.02,REV=2010.03.09 Patch Check Advanced
pixman 0.17.10,REV=2010.03.06 The pixel-manipulation library f...
pkgutil 1.10,REV=2010.03.10 Installs Solaris packages easily
pkgutilplus 1.10,REV=2010.03.10 Extends pkgutil functionality
pm_butils 0.11,REV=2010.03.11 Helper functions for op tree man...
pm_poetestloops 1.033,REV=2010.03.11 Reusable tests for POE::L...
pm_xmlnssupp 1.10,REV=2010.03.04 Simple generic namespace supp...
pm_xmlsax 0.96,REV=2010.03.04 Simple API for XML
poppler 0.10.6,REV=2010.03.11 Poppler is a PDF rendering libra...
poppler_data 0.4.0,REV=2010.03.11 Poppler is a PDF rendering l...
py_lxml 2.2.4,REV=2010.03.05 Easy to use and powerful libxml2/...
py_xcbproto 1.6,REV=2010.03.06 XCB protocol descriptions (in X...
rsync 3.0.7,REV=2010.02.17 utility which provides fast increme...
startup_notif 0.10,REV=2010.03.09 Reference implementation of ...
thunderbird_af 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_be 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_bg 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_ca 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_cs 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_da 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_de 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_el 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_en_gb 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_es_ar 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_es_es 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_eu 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_fi 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_fr 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_ga_ie 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_he 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_hu 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_it 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_ja 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_ko 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_lt 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_mk 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_nb_no 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_nl 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_nn_no 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_pa_in 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_pl 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_pt_br 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_pt_pt 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_ru 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_sk 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_sl 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_sv_se 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_tr 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_uk 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language pa...
thunderbird_zh_cn 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
thunderbird_zh_tw 2.0.0.23,REV=2010.03.11 Thunderbird language...
tkdiff 4.1.4,REV=2010.03.04 A graphical diff tool
vncserver 1.3.10,REV=2010.03.04 TightVNC server
vncviewer 1.3.10,REV=2010.03.04 TightVNC viewer
wesnoth 1.4.7,REV=2010.03.04 a free turn-based strategy game w...
wxwidgets_common 2.8.10,REV=2010.03.04 A cross-platform toolki...
wxwidgets_devel 2.8.10,REV=2010.03.04 A cross-platform toolkit...
wxwidgets_gtk2 2.8.10,REV=2010.03.04 A cross-platform toolkit,...
xcbproto 1.6,REV=2010.03.06 XCB protocol descriptions (in XML)
xjobs 20100311,REV=2010.03.11 Executes jobs in parallel simila...

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