Enabling non-standard package repositories
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UBOS repositories
Like many other Linux distributions, UBOS is split into multiple package repositories. By default, the following repositories are enabled:
os
: contains the core operating system;tools
: contains useful tools for development;hl
: contains “head-less” application-level packages, such as web Apps and Accessories.
On x86_64
PCs, UBOS also has:
virt
: for virtualization / VirtualBox support.
In addition, the following repositories are not enabled by default:
-
os-experimental
: operating system components that so far, are deemed experimental, that may either not work sufficiently well, or that may be removed without notice. -
hl-experimental
: similar, experimental “head-less” application-level packages. -
mesh
: the packages for UBOS Mesh. -
toyapps
: Apps that are useful for development or for understanding UBOS, but not ever intended to be run in production.
Each one of those repositories is defined in a separate file in directory
/etc/pacman.d/repositories.d
. The difference between the enabled and disabled
repositories is simply that the data in the disabled files is “commented out”.
To enable a disabled repository, find the corresponding file, open it in an editor, and
undo the “commenting out”. For example, to enable the toyapps
repo, edit
/etc/pacman.d/repositories.d/toyapps
, and remove the leading #
characters, so
the file looks as follows:
[toyapps]
Server = http://depot.ubosfiles.net/$channel/$arch/toyapps
Then, run ubos-admin update
so pacman
will pick up the new repository.
3rd-party repositories
You can add additional files into /etc/pacman.d/repositories.d
that specify additional
repositories. You can use one of the existing files in that directory as a template. Once
you have added the file, run ubos-admin update
, otherwise pacman
will not pick up
your new repository.
Note two key distinctions between UBOS and its upstream distro Arch Linux:
-
Do not edit the repositories in
/etc/pacman.conf
directly. UBOS will overwrite it there. -
You can use the symbol
$channel
in the URL to indicate the UBOS Release Channel.