Packages
- Tazpkg - Package manager.
- List of packages - Display or generate a list of packages.
- Install packages - Get and install new packages.
- Upgrade - Keep your system secure.
- Tazwok & the wok - Package format and build tools.
Tazpkg - Package manager
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. On SliTaz
you can type tazpkg usage
in a terminal to get a list of all the
commands with a short description in English.
You can also read the manual.
List of packages
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 specifiy
cat
or category
.
Examples:
$ tazpkg list cat $ tazpkg list base-system
Tazpkg can also generate a nice 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
To install some new applications such as The Gimp, AbiWord, ePDFView, Perl or Python, you first need to recharge the list of available packages on the mirror and then install. If the package dependencies are not installed Tazpkg will install them for you. For example, the installation of Gparted a GTK+ partition editor using GNU parted:
# tazpkg recharge # tazpkg get-install gparted
Upgrade installed packages
To keep your system up-to-date and secure after recharging the packages list, you can automatically install all new versions and security updates from the mirror with the command:
# tazpkg upgrade
Tazpkg Manual
The Tazpkg Manual contains a lot more useful information.
Tazwok & the wok
All SliTaz packages are built with a tool named Tazwok and a receipt found
in the wok. 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 compile_rules
function has all of
the necessary commands to configure, make, and install the package in a specific directory.
After compilation, Tazwok will execute the function genpkg_rules
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.
Tazwok 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 Tazwok configuration file which can be located in
/etc/tazwok.conf
or in the current directory, which is useful if you
want to work with multiple woks. Now, if the slitaz-toolchain
is
installed, you can start to create and build a package which doesn't need many
dependencies. Small example:
# tazwok new-tree 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:
# tazwok cook pkgname
Note that you can now browse the generated files, modify the cooking receipt again or
just rebuild the package with tazwok genpkg
. When you are happy with
your work you can install the package with tazpkg install
and
test the application or library.