I love OS/2, for user-friendly Workplace Shell and its stability. Needless to say, Open Source Softwares (OSS) are OPEN to OS/2 users. A lot of GNU utilities and other OSSs have been ported to OS/2. In my computer, command line oriented and XFree86 OSSs are almost common in OS/2 and in Linux (Vine 1.1). Platform independency of OSSs are high. As long as they are active, OS/2 never be dead, I believe.

• TeXLive2007-test-1.zip: ZIP archive[Mon, 19 Nov 2007]
  • Readme.os: Instruction
  • FileList.datFiles List
• Open Source Softwares ported to OS/2
  • GNU diffutils 2.8[Sat, 6 Mar 2002]: please test this!
• OS/2 RPM Project [updated Mar 24, 2002]
• Coming Soon (or late)
• os2unix utility : modify configure and other files when you compile freesoftwares in OS/2 [16-Jan-2005]

  Without OS/2 ported autoconf, you will be able to "sh configure and make"

• Useful Links
• Patch kit for Open Source Software
  • GNU GNU shar utilities 4.2.1 [Nov-12-2001]
  • GNU GNU groff 1.17.2[Nov-8-2001]
  • GNU sh-utils 2.0: bug fixed for hostname and uname [Oct-9-2001]
  • Red Hat rpm version 4.0: Now on test![Mar-11-2001]
  • GNU text utilities 2.0.11 : binary package of ZIP and RPM also available [Fri Mar 2 22:28:17 +0900]

    Sorry, some programs including `sort.exe' of the first release (Thu Mar 1 2001 21:43:17 +0900) produced wrong newline.
    If you have downloaded an old version, please re-download new one.

  • GNU GNU gettext 0.10.35 : binary package of ZIP and RPM also available [Mar-2-2001]
  • GNU GNU grep 2.5a : binary package of ZIP and RPM also available [Mar-2-2001]
  • beta version of GNU gettext(0.10.36)[Feb-23-2001]
  • GNU GNU id-utils 3.2 (for developer)[Feb-23-2001]
  • GNU GNU groff 1.16.1[Feb-12-2001]
  • GNU GNU plotutils 2.4.1

OS/2 RPM Project: rpm binary package

To install rpm package, RPM for OS/2[1.2 Mb] should have been installed successfully.

If you don't like to install rpm system, you can select a simple unpacking utility. Get unrpm.zip[260 kb] and install, then you can extract files from rpm package.

Every rpm package in this web page are to be installed in "\emx" directory of some drive specified by environment variable RPMDRV. All rpm package contain SPEC file and DIFF file.

GNU sh-utils 2.0	a package of small shell programming utilities	Oct-9-2001
GNU gettext 0.10.35	Utilities for internatiolalization of message from program	Mar-2-2000
GNU grep v2.5a	grep, egrep, fgrep - print lines matching a pattern	Mar-2-2001
GNU text utilities 2.0.11	text processing utilities	Mar-2-2000
bzip2 v1.0.0	Latest version of bzip2	Jun-25-2000
GNU sed v3.02.80	a Stream EDitor	99/11/20
GNU texinfo v4.1	Latest version of Texinfo system	2002/3/24
GNU patch v2.5.4	apply a diff file to an original:bug fixed!	Feb-12-2001

Coming Soon[or late]

Here is a list of already compiled freewares to be packaged and to be put in my web page.

• RPM related freewares
  • rpm2html 1.2: make an html database from rpm repository
  • rpmfind 1.2: RPM packages search engine
  • glitter 1.1 : slang-based text-mode RPM manipulation utility
  • PURP v0.9.2 : ncurses-based RPM-handler
  • gnorpm 0.9: Red Hat's RPM package manager
• GNU freewares
  • Text mode
    • GNU ID utilities 3.2: make ID database and query for tokens....
    • GNU plot utilities 2.2
    • GNU readline 4.1
    • GNU shar utilities 4.2: Japanese SJIS message is available
    • GNU units 1.55: converts between different systems of units
  • XFree86 for OS/2
    • non-gnome application
      • Wmakerconf 2.6.1 : Window Maker Configuration Utility
      • GNU shogi: xshogi-1.2p03
    • gnome application
      • gedit 0.5.4: a text editor
      • glade 0.5.7: a user interface builder for the GTK+ toolkit and Gnome
      • gnorpm 0.9: Red Hat's RPM package manager
• Other freewares
  • Text mode
    • fortune version 9708: print a random, hopefully interesting, adage
    • jed version B0.99.8+J0.6.7: slang based text editor
    • w3m beta-990716 : text based Web browser and pager
    • ncurses 5.0
  • XFree86 for OS/2
    • Gzilla 0.1.5: gtk based web browser
    • xdvik 22.15: DVI viewer [Japanised]
    • xdvik 22.15-t1-beta: DVI viewer -- postscript fonts is available
    • rxvt v2.6.2: VT102 emulator for the X window system
    • xjed (XFree86) version B0.99.8+J0.6.7: slang based text editor

If you urgently need some of above copies, e-mail me.
I will send you a patch or binary package before putting them in this page.

Programs that require UNIXROOT env. var.

Name	Patch Kit	Source
GNU shar utilities 4.2.1	sharutils-4.2.1-OS2-patch.zip 51 kb [Nov-12-2001]	ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.2.1.tar.gz (306 Kb)
GNU groff 1.17.2	groff-1.17.2-OS2-patch.zip 35 kb [Nov-8-2001]	ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.17.2.tar.gz (1.5 Mb)
Red Hat rpm 4.0	rpm-4.0-OS2-patch.zip 54 kb [Mar-2-2001]	ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.tar.gz (2 Mb)
GNU sh-utils 2.0	sh-utils-2.0-OS2-patch.zip 54 kb [Mar-2-2001]	ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sh-utils/sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz (1.2 Mb)
GNU text utilities 2.0.11	textutils-2.0.11-OS2-patch.zip 69 kb [Mar-2-2001]	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.11.tar.gz (1.9 Mb)
GNU gettext 0.10.35	gettext-0.10.35-OS2-patch.zip 35 kb [Mar-2-2001]	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.10.35.tar.gz (713kb)
GNU grep 2.5a	grep-2.5a-OS2-patch.zip 31 kb [Mar-2-2001]	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/grep-2.5a.tar.gz (456kb)
GNU gettext 0.10.36(beta version)	gettext-2001-02-05-OS2-patch.zip 30 kb [Feb-23-2001]	ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/gettext-2001-02-05.tar.gz (869kb)
GNU id-utils 3.2	id-utils-3.2-OS2-patch.zip 27 kb [Feb-23-2001]	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/id-utils/id-utils-3.2.tar.gz (388kb)
GNU grep 2.5a	grep-2.5a-OS2-patch.zip 26 kb [Feb-23-2001]	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.5a.tar.gz (456 Kb)

Programs with no relation to UNIXROOT env. var.

• libiconv 1.3: libiconv-1.3-OS2-patch.zip (8 kb) [Feb-4-2001]

  Source: ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.3.tar.gz(1.7Mb)

  You should build and install this to make gettext 2001-02-05.

• GNU groff 1.16.1: groff-1.16.1-OS2-patch.zip

  Source : ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.16.1.tar.gz

  Unzip this zip archive in source directory and do "os2config && sh configure && make"
  If you'd like to make Japanized version, get this groff-1.16.1-OS2-en_to_jp.diff.gz(186 kb)

        After unzipped groff-1.16.1-OS2-eng-patch.zip, execute "os2config"
        Do "os2unix -clean"
        Apply groff-1.16.1-OS2-en_to_jp.diff.gz
        Do "sh configure && make"
        Do "sh configure && make"
  

• Patch for GNU plotutils 2.4.1 : plotutils-2.4.1-OS2.diff.gz

  Source : ftp.gnu.org/gnu/plotutils/plotutils-2.4.1.tar.gz

  �@�@All you have to do is doing configure and make.

HOMEPAGE(written in Japanese)

OS/2 ported software (written in English)

OS/2 ported softwares(written in Japanese)