For GNU/Linux users the best solution is, if the distribution already includes recent packages of OpenSC. Here is a survey of recent distributions. If you have additional infomation, please add it.
| Debian woody (old stable) | does not contain OpenSC packages |
| Debian sarge (stable) | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Debian sid (development) | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Fedora Core 3 | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| Fedora Core 4 | OpenSC 0.9.6 included |
| Gentoo Portage | OpenSC 0.9.6 in dev-libs/opensc |
| Mandrake | OpenSC 0.8.1 in contrib |
| Novell/SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86 | OpenSC 0.8.0 included |
| OpenPKG | not included |
| Rock Linux | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| Suse 9.3 | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| Suse 9.2 | OpenSC 0.8.1 included |
| Suse 9.1 | OpenSC 0.8.0 included |
ATrpms lists some RPM based distributions.
Other operating systems:
| NetBSD | not included |
| FreeBSD | OpenSC 0.9.4 included |
| OpenBSD | not included |
| fink / Mac OS X | not included |