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Solved: Package Installation
  • densedense July 2010
    I`m just not getting how to install a package in SliTaz, in this case opera. I`ve read the manual five times. I ran tazpkg install get-opera-1.00.tazpkg and it did and it shows it installed. Obviously I don`t get the whole package management procedure in SliTaz. Please explain.
  • seawolfseawolf July 2010
    The get* packages contain only one script of the same name. They (the script) download binary programs like Opera and Skype, and package them up, to give you a 'get' package and a working package. This means you use the 'get' package to download them, the working one to remove them.

    You should have the 'get' package installed; run from the command line as root user:
    get-opera
    and it'll dash off and fetch Opera, and package it (and even install it) for you.

    It's a bit confusing but it's because it's not a program SliTaz has generated and can't really trust/optimise etc. etc.

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    The other packages which are compiled and generated by SliTaz servers are simply a case of:
    tazpkg get-install [package]
    tazpkg remove [package]
    as you may have sussed out.

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    I've also updated the docs on this as I didn't realise it wasn't explained!

    HIH.
  • densedense July 2010
    Thanks Seawolf
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