Free ports software for linux

Ports Tree Explorer (PTE) is a small tool that allows you to navigate through your /usr/ports tree, showing you information about a selected port, tree view, software categories (/usr/ports main dirs) and finally allows you to install a selected port using childs for the installation.
PTE Allows you to monitor background installs and allow you to perform certain operations related to your software ports tree, with a plain and simple GUI requires almost minimum shell interaction.
Newer versions will include CVS updates off the ports, managing/modifying a specific port, see available FLAVORS and finally specify compilation options for this port. Ports Tree Explorer is written in perl/tk and its working (tested) on Open BSD. PTE is free and improvements, adjustments etc. are more than welcomed.
PTE aims to be an easy to use tool. Plain and simple as possible, functional for new users of /usr/ports tree along with experienced users that get bored often.
The scope of this project is to provide an easy way to use/maintain and install programs from your ports tree.
At the current stage, we aim to be usable and all the required functions be implemented and work.
After this goes to a stable release, security enhancements and extra functionality will be added.
Main features:
- Ports Category separation
- Ports Program separation
- Description of Port
- Install selected port
- History of executed commands (Installations)
Enhancements:
- Kill a background install.
- Changed the state of background install from Started to Finished (when the install is actually finished)
- Save history to file.
- Direct output from the fork to the output window.
- Support for other ports, like NetBSD, Free BSD ports.

CruxPorts4Slack adapts the "ports" and "pkgmk" commands to allow the use of ports repositories for Crux with Slackware.
In the BSD Unix World a ports system means a directory hierarchy (ususally under /usr/ports)
where you can automatically build your own binary packages from source.
The advantage of a ports system is, that the built packages are optimized for your computer. Second advantage is: ports are faster available then binary packages.
In the last years ports systems became popular on Linux, too. A well-known Linux distro with a ports system is Gentoo, another one is Crux (www.crux.nu).
Being a Slackware fan, I decided to switch to Crux, because Slackware hadnt alls the packages I wanted and using ./configure && make && make install (or even checkinstall) wasnt the optimum for me.
At first I was impressed with the ports system of Crux. But building every single package, even the most basic software (e.g. util-linux), was getting on my nerves. And I didnt like the system layout of Crux (they are using devfs) as much as I liked Slackwares.
I thought "Why dont use a mix of the two". Slackware with the Crux ports system - that would be it. Crux binary packages are based on tar.gz, so are Slackware packages. So I switched back to Slack and ported the Crux port system to Slackware. Another reason for making this is, that I will use this system in the next version of DeLi Linux (www.delilinux.de).
Here is the result: With cruxports4slack you can use the crux ports system with Slackware.
Running:
pkginfo
-------
usage: pkginfo [-i|-i package]
options:
-i, --installed list installed packages and their version.
-l, --list package list files owned by the specified package
-h print help and exit
Enhancements:
- The ability to use alternative Pkgfiles was added.
- The httpup files for the contrib and opt repositories were updated.

PPort is a simple yet handy automation program and its documented counterpart for interfacing a PC with external devices.

With this bundle, one can control any household appliance or electronic device with minimal hassle and practically no changes

Sys::PortIO is a Perl module to perform direct port I/O from Perl.

SYNOPSIS

use Sys::PortIO;

port_open($portnum);
write_byte($portnum, $value);
$value = read_byte($portnum);
port_close($portnum);

This module provides a Perl interface to the low-level port I/O operations provided by Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. Among other things, this is useful for writing Perl scripts that interface with parallel, serial, or joystick ports.

MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics is a PHP script that uses MRTG and RRDtool to sum up traffic monthly and yearly. Just click on any device and MRTS will show you the traffic-graphs and the statistics on how much traffic you have made during the actual/last months/year.

MRTS is short for “MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics”. It is a PHP script written by Thor Dreier that uses “MRTG and RRDtool to sum up total traffic monthly and yearly”. But why making words, if you can see the full power of MRTS in some examples: http://mrts.domainnet.dk

First thing to do is to check, which of the above mentioned packages you already have installed. No idea? Well, then you should do a simple
ls /var/db/pkg
or
pkg_info

which lists the packages, you have installed using the FreeBSD ports. If you don’t know what the FreeBSD ports are, then you probably won’t have to read on, as some basics really are required in this tutorial ;) Anyway, i’m trying to explain step by step. After you have checked your installed packages, install the packages you still need.
Net-SNMP: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp
MRTG: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg
RRDtool: /usr/ports/net/rrdtool

Some of these programs depend on various libraries (e.g. zlib, libpng, GD), but that’s the good thing: The port-install-mechanism will automatically check, if you have them or not and it will install them, if needed. Do a make && make install && make clean

in the corresponding port directories to install that specific port. Now it could take a while until all ports are compiled.

TCP port scanner is a network scanner for Linux.

Installation:

1. Install - become root and gunzip/tar tcpscan-X-Y-Z.tar.gz.
2. Type ./confugure , make
3. Type install
4. Enjoy and try type tcpscan localhost
5. To get help - run tcpscan without parametres.

Usage:

tcpscan [-f] [hostname || IP_address]
tcpscan [-f] [first_IP_address] [last_IP_address]

Parallel Port Make project is a tool to build FreeBSD ports in parallel to fully take advantage of modern multi-core and processor machines.

Default: pportmake.py --clean -- cleanup --install -job=2 [port1] [portn]

Example: pportmake.py irc/irssi irc/epic

Advanced: pportmake.py -rSvD -j 10 irc/irssi

-h --help Show this help usage message
-c --clean Clean port before compiling
-C --cleanup Clean port after compiling
-d --deinstall Deinstall ports, implied by reinstall
-f --force Force a port and all dependancies to be installed
-G --noconfig Dont recursively configure options
-i --install Install port (default)
-j n --jobs=n Number of threads to use, 1 or 2 per CPU core
is recommended
Default is 2
-O args --options=foo List of arguments to pass to make.
E.g. -O -DX11=yes -DFOO
-r --reinstall Reinstall port and ALL dependancies
-S --maxspeed Try and speed up by maximising CPU usuage.
This may break some ports, use with caution
-w --noclean Dont make clean before compiling
-W --nocleanup Dont make clean after compiling
-v --verbose Be extra verbose
-V --version Show version information
-D --debug Show some debugging info
-P --pretend Dont actually alter the ports

NOTES: It is currently only safe to run 1 copy of this and not have other ports compiling simultaneously