GoboLinux Command Reference
Package management
Finding
Installing
- Compile - Compile and install software from sources using
GoboLinux recipe.
- InstallPackage - Install precompiled GoboLinux packages.
- FetchArchive - Download the sources for a recipe, but don’t
compile them.
- Freshen - Many options to check for availability and upgrade
GoboLinux packages
Administration
Creating recipes and packages
- GetRecipe - Fetch a recipe and insert it in the recipes tree.
- MakeRecipe - Create a recipe template.
- EditRecipe - Edit a recipe.
- ContributeRecipe - Submit recipe changes via a GitHub
PR.
- CreatePackage - Make a GoboLinux package.
- NewVersion - Update a recipe to a new version.
- PrepareProgram - Prepares applications for instalation,
running the ‘configure’
- Hashes - Manages FileHash and FileHash.sig files in a GoboLinux
package.
- MergeTree - Mirrors one directory structure into another.
- DeduceName - Scan a file to find the capitalization of a
program name.
- FiboSandbox - Run the program in a protected sandbox, as a
restricted user.
- FixInfo - Remakes the entries in the info ‘dir’ file.
- NamingConventions - Heuristics to determine a
capitalized, GoboLinux-like name.
- SandboxInstall - Runs ‘make install’, using a sandbox
environment.
System maintenance
- AddUser - Register a new user in this system.
- SystemFind - Special ‘find’ utility for searches in the
/System hierarchy.
- SystemInfo - Display some basic system information. Useful for
/etc/issue.
Utilities
Wrappers
- FindQuick (alias: f) - Find files.
- GrepQuick (alias: g) - Shorthand for ‘grep’.
- l - alias for ’ls’ with some options set.
- KillProcess - Enhanced process killing utility.
- Rename - Performs a sed-based search/replace in a set of
filenames.
Boot scripts
- BootDriver - The boot controller script.
- StartTask - Run a boot task from the command line.
- StopTask - Stop a boot task from the command line.
Special files