You can download all FOSSology releases (and release candidates) from Sourceforge.net. You will find release tarballs and some packages there.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fossology/files/

The FOSSology Project maintains all of its source code in a subversion repository at SourceForge.

You can view the svn repository via a web interface:

http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/

To checkout the project source code:

svn co https://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fossology/trunk/fossology/

Packages for deb based distributions are available from different sources, depending on release. Consult the appropriate instructions below for the line to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

After you apt-get install, make sure you apt-cache show fossology and read the package description, which will tell you how to run it. You can also look at the doc files in /usr/share/doc/fossology*

The latest version of fossology is available in sid, no extra repository needed, you can just

apt-get install fossology

The version of fossology in squeeze is based on Debian's rules for packages entering testing, which ensure the quality goals of that release. To use the version of fossology in squeeze (that meets these goals) you don't need any additional apt sources, you can just

apt-get install fossology

However, this means that the version in squeeze might not be the latest version of fossology available if that version is too new or buggy. In that case if you want the latest possible version, you may be able to use the packages from unstable.

Backports of fossology versions are available for lenny and etch via http://backports.org. Instructions on how to use the backports.org apt repository are available here. Packages must first enter the current testing release (currently squeeze) before they can be uploaded to backports.org. As mentioned above, this means that the latest fossology version may not yet be available due to being too new or buggy. In that case if you want the latest possible version, the fossology project temporarily provides builds for testing purposes. NOTE You are welcome to use these packages, but we encourage you to use backports.org instead unless necessary.

deb http://fossology.org/debian/lenny-backports ./

deb http://fossology.org/debian/etch-backports ./

The latest version of fossology is available in karmic koala, no additional apt source is necessary. You can just

apt-get install fossology

A bug report requesting a backport to jaunty has been filed in launchpad #401960

A bug report requesting a backport to hardy has been filed in launchpad #401959

Currently we have rpm's for CentOS/RHEL 4, CentOS/RHEL 5.

To use our Yum repository:

1. Download the FOSSology repository rpm from http://fossology.org/rpms/epel/fossology-repo-1.rpm
2. Installing this rpm will add fossology.repo to /etc/yum.repo.d/
3. Run yum install fossology to install the latest fossology version

You can pick up individual rpms today at https://sourceforge.net/projects/fossology/files/

If you want others, you should write the list (fossology@fossology.org).

Port (pkg_add)

FreeBSD also happens to use FOSSology to scan their distro:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsLicenseInfrastructure

Thanks go to Alejandro Pulver

If you need detailed installation instructions, look at our install page.