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Hi! I was wondering why SliTaz uses tazpkg as its package manager and not aptitude and Debian's repositories? Since Debian has a lot of packages, wouldn't it be better to have APT and Debian's repos instead? What if SliTaz was based of off Debian? would it decrease the performance of Slitaz and increase its hardware requirements?
As a user of Linux Mint, I find SliTaz a bit confusing for new users to install and compile packages.
I have installed SliTaz on VirtalBox and on an old pc I found (AMD Duron 900MHz, 168MB RAM) and I truly am impressed by Slitaz; its crazy fast yet beautiful for a 100MB filesystem. Now, the only thing that I find confusing is tazpkg as the package manager; it only has like 3000 packages while Debian's repos have 30,000+ packages. Thats my question then: why not use APT and Debian's repos?
I have installed SliTaz on VirtalBox and on an old pc I found (AMD Duron 900MHz, 168MB RAM) and I truly am impressed by Slitaz; its crazy fast yet beautiful for a 100MB filesystem. Now, the only thing that I find confusing is tazpkg as the package manager; it only has like 3000 packages while Debian's repos have 30,000+ packages. Thats my question then: why not use APT and Debian's repos?
GCC for Linux (slitaz distribution). (like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or OpenSuSE). This lists gcc package form SliTaz.
SliTaz provides a tiny package manager which can easily install more software on the system. Tazpkg is a lightweight package manager for.tazpkg files. Completely written in SHell script, it works well with Busybox ash shell and bash.
Tazpkg lets you list, install, remove, download, extract, pack, search, or get information about available or installed packages. You can also repack an installed package and automatically upgrade all installed packages.
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On SliTaz you can type tazpkg usage in a terminal to get a list of all the commands with a short description in English. List of packages.
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Tazpkg lets you list all installed packages, installed packages by category or it can display the list of available packages on the mirror. To display a single list of all installed packages on the system, just type: $ tazpkg list To display all categories or packages sorted by category, you must specify cat or category. Examples: $ tazpkg list cat $ tazpkg list base-system Tazpkg can also generate a xHTML list (default: installed-packages.html) in the local directory of all installed packages on the system: $ tazpkg xhtml-list To get a single list of all available packages on the mirror you can use the command list-mirror. You can then examine the list in your favorite editor or use the Web site interface. Install packages. All SliTaz packages are built with a tool named Cookutils and a receipt found in the wok.
Debian Terminal Commands
The receipt provides all the necessary information to build a suitable package for Tazpkg including variables to give us the package name, source tarball format, download URL, etc. Given a receipt, the compilerules function has all of the necessary commands to configure, make, and install the package in a specific directory. After compilation, Cookutils will execute the function genpkgrules to pick up only the needed/wanted files and generate a pkg.tazpkg (cpio archive). On SliTaz you will find all installed package receipts in the directory /var/lib/tazpkg/installed, feel free to examine them or even use one as an example. Cookutils will search by default for a wok in /home/slitaz/wok and put generated packages in /home/slitaz/packages.
These paths are set by a Cookutils configuration file which can be located in /etc/slitaz/cook.conf or in the current directory, which is useful if you want to work with multiple woks. Now, if the Cookutils are setup ( # cook setup) and the slitaz-toolchain is installed, you can start to create and build a package which doesn't need many dependencies. Small example: # cook new pkgname -interactive When a new package tree and receipt has been created in the wok, you can edit the receipt with your favorite editor (Geany provides nicely colored code), modify the rules, functions, add dependencies to the DEPENDS variable if needed and try a first cook: # cook pkgname Note that you can now browse the generated files, modify the cooking receipt again or just rebuild the package.
Debian Install Package
When you are happy with your work you can install the package with tazpkg install and then test the application or library.
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