GoboLinux Command Reference

Package management

Finding

• UpdateRecipes - Update local copy of recipe store
• GetAvailable - Search for GoboLinux recipes and precompiled packages
• FindPackage - Search for packages and recipes, locally or remotely.
• SuggestUpdates - List packages with an update available.
• SuggestDuplicates - Provide a list of programs that are not linked to Current
• PrioritiseUpdates - Order output of SuggestUpdates by dependency
• Dependencies - Queries dependencies in a GoboLinux package.

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

• SymlinkProgram - Link a program from the /Programs hierarchy in the /System tree.
• DisableProgram - Unlink a program from the /System/Index hierarchy.
• RemoveProgram - Remove a program version from the system.
• DetachProgram - Move a program from /Programs to a different location.
• RebuildLinks - Rebuild /System/Index directories.
• RemoveBroken - Remove broken links.

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.

Helper tools

• 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

• FilterColors - Filter to monochrome.
• FilterLines
• FixAttributes - Fix attributes from files based on its contents.
• GrepReplace - Swaps occurrences of a regex for another word in a series of files.
• IsExecutable - Determines if a file is executable.
• RemoveEmpty - Remove all empty directories inside current (or a given) directory.

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

• GoboPath
• ScriptFunctions