CSW home page

Welcome to the new site for 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.

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.

Docs and FAQ

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
There is also a general About CSW page.

Packages updated in the last 7 days:

(Last update: Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 CET 2008 )
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

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