Package Management | GoboLinux Documentation

Updating Programs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Overview Use the UpdateRecipes command to refresh your local cache of the GoboLinux recipe store. You can query available updates using the utilities SuggestUpdates and SuggestDuplicates. The output of each of these commands is suitable for piping into commands. The FindPackage and GetAvailable commands may also be useful. Example Update Process Keep in mind that most operations that change the file-system state in Gobo require super user privileges:

Removing Programs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In GoboLinux, all programs, whether binary packages or user-compiled software, are installed into a single directory under the /Programs hierarchy, such as, for instance, gimp: /Programs/Gimp/3.2.2 Removing this program can be, in theory, as simple as: rm -rf Gimp/3.2.2 But since this leaves behind dangling symlinks, GoboLinux offers the RemoveProgram utility, which removes the program and all links pointing to its files in /System/Index. RemoveProgram Gimp 3.2.2 Sometimes you may want to “turn off” a program temporarily, without erasing it from your hard disk. In other words, you want to remove program’s executables from the execution path, and remove libraries and headers from the lookup path.

Managing Alien Packages

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction For an introduction to Alien packages please refer to Alien Packaging Subsystem. How to install and update Alien packages In order to install a foreign package we can use the following syntax: sudo Alien --install : For instance, in order to install or update meson you would type: