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.
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
| amavisd_new | 2.6.1,REV=2008.11.18 | Interface between MTA and con... |
| antiword | 0.37,REV=2008.11.10 | convert Word docs to text |
| argus | 2.0.6,REV=2008.11.12 | network Audit Record Generation and... |
| binutils | 2.19,REV=2008.11.17 | GNU 'binary utilities': gas, gld,... |
| eventlog | 0.2.5,REV=2008.11.11 | Replacement of the simple syslog... |
| flex_new | 2.5.35,REV=2008.11.17 | A tool for generating text-scan... |
| gd | 2.0.35,REV=2008.11.12 | libgd, Graphics creation library and ... |
| links | 0.98,REV=2008.11.12 | text-based WWW browser |
| mantis | 1.1.4,REV=2008.11.12 | Mantis is a free popular web-based... |
| pkg_get | 3.9.1,REV=2008.11.12 | CSW version of automated package ... |
| pkgutil | 1.2,REV=2008.11.12 | install Solaris packages the easy way |
| pm_appconfig | 1.66,REV=2008.11.16 | Perl5 module for configuratio... |
| pm_berkeleydb | 0.36,REV=2008.11.18 | BerkeleyDB module |
| pm_configgeneral | 2.40,REV=2008.11.16 | Generic Config Module |
| pm_convertuulib | 1.12,REV=2008.11.16 | Perl interface to the uuli... |
| pm_emailsimple | 2.004,REV=2008.11.14 | simple parsing of RFC2822 ... |
| pm_fileremove | 1.42,REV=2008.11.16 | remove files and directories |
| pm_iomultiplex | 1.10,REV=2008.11.16 | Manage IO on many file handles |
| pm_maildkim | 0.32,REV=2008.11.18 | Signs/verifies Internet mail w... |
| pm_mailtools | 2.04,REV=2008.11.14 | various mail manipulation mod... |
| pm_mimetools | 5.427,REV=2008.11.16 | modules for parsing and crea... |
| pm_netserver | 0.97,REV=2008.11.16 | Extensible, general Perl serv... |
| pm_prmsvldt | 0.91,REV=2008.11.19 | validate method/function param... |
| syslog_ng | 2.0.9,REV=2008.11.12 | A powerful syslogd replacement |