Installing binary packages
We do not maintain a binary package repository at this time!
Please build your packages from source using Compile!
Binary packages in GoboLinux are precompiled software packages built for the GoboLinux directory tree and made available through the GoboLinux software repository (recipe store). Since these packages are already compiled, you can save the many hours needed to build larger applications. On the other hand, with binary packages you don’t have the ability to set compile flags for optimization or specific architectures.
Installing packages
InstallPackage is the GoboLinux script for
installing binary packages. If you want
InstallPackage to look for the most recent Gimp
package available, you can run
The script will check if the package is available in the GoboLinux repositories.
(See /System/Settings/GetAvailable.conf for the specific URLs scanned. You may
add your own repositories if you desire.)
If you want to select a specific version, you can pass it as the second parameter:
If you downloaded the package and want to install it, run:
The script normally runs interactively, asking about each dependency of the
requested package before installing it. You can avoid these queries by adding
the --batch or -b flag. This is particularly useful with large packages such
as Gimp or Xorg, which have many dependencies.
Dependencies
InstallPackage will warn you if dependencies of a package you are trying to
install are unavailable and ask if you want to continue. This is valuable,
because some software may still work satisfactorily even if a particular plug-in
or other dependency is missing.
Installing packages from the LiveCD
See Installing Packages from the LiveCD.
Removing packages
See Removing programs.