I have completed refactoring the MiKTeX core library. The library now compiles on Linux systems.

Next comes the package manager library. Challenges in this area are the following:

• Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP)
• cabinet files

Currently, the library uses Windows APIs to access the Internet and to read cabinet files. In order to make the library portable, I will refactor it to use

• libcurl - a multiprotocol transfer library (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/)
• libmspack - a library for Microsoft compression formats (http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/)

The refactoring will take a month or two. Once completed, we have the command-line version (http://www.miktex.org/manual/mpm.html) of the MiKTeX package manager ready to be run on Linux, i.e., teTeX/TeXLive users will be able to download and install packages from the MiKTeX package repository.