Installation information
Debian binary & source packages
Please note that the packages provided on this site are unofficial
and unsupported by the Debian project, although they are built by the
Debian maintainer responsible of the TiLP packages.
Also note that the packages provided here are provided on a best
effort basis for TiLP users running Debian stable (actually codenamed
"Woody", version 3.0) and users running Debian unstable (aka "Sid").
Please do not report bugs affecting these packages to the Debian Bug
Tracking System. In case of troubles, contact the pakage author.
Last, only i386 & amd64 packages and source are provided here.
If you are
using another architecture, see the "Debian source with apt" stanza
below to build the packages. Report any troubles to package maintainer
(i.e me).
Debian binary via dpkg
This is the harder way to install tilp onto a Debian system:
- Grab the Debian packages you want. Put
packages into a temporary
directory.
- Move to that directory, then run 'dpkg -i *.deb'. This installs
programs/libraries, and may even set up your menus for it.
- Run program(s).
Debian binary via apt
Well, if the above is the hard way to install programs/libraries
onto a Debian
box, then this way must be pretty easy, huh? It may involve more steps,
but the first only needs doing once and the others should be done every
now and again anyway.
- Check you have 'apt - dpkg -l | grep apt'. This should produce a
line
similar to 'apt 0.3.18 Advanced front-end for dpkg'. If you don't,
install it from dselect.
- Add the following two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
- I386: deb http://repo.calcforge.org/debian/i386 stable main non-free
- AMD64: deb http://repo.calcforge.org/debian/amd64 stable main non-free
- deb-src http://repo.calcforge.org/debian/source stable main non-free
- Run 'apt-get update'. This fetches information about the latest
version of everything in /etc/apt/sources.list
- If all went well, run 'apt-get -u upgrade'. This checks the
versions of what's Out There and compares to what you have. Anything
out of date will automatically be fetched and installed. -u just tells
apt-get to tell you what's being upgraded. If this produces a huge list
of stuff to download, then just running 'apt-get install package' will
work
too.
- Once apt is finished, you may want to take a backup copy of the
.deb. You'll find it in /var/cache/apt/archives
Admittedly, the above may seem a bit complex, but it is much easier. No
need to check yourself to see when a new version of program/library has
been
released, apt does that for you and once you've been through the above,
all that you need to do is 'apt-get update' followed by either 'apt-get
-u
upgrade' or 'apt-get install package'. See? Told you it was easy.
Debian source via apt
- Do the first three steps for installing the binary via apt (up
to, and including, apt-get update)
- Then do 'apt-get source --compile pacakge' for each package.
Install the
newly-created packages before building the next one.
Package trusting
- If you are using etch and you want apt to verify the downloaded packages you can import the CalcForge Debian archive’s key into apt:
gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys B9DBBC62
gpg --export | apt-key add -
(available as a convenient script for you, too!)
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Page written by JB for TiLP, updated by roms.