Bundles

From The Chakra Project

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Installing Bundles 3 Improving Appearance 4 See also

Bundles Chakra's non-Qt Click'n'Run apps

Introduction

Chakra bundles are half way between the Mac OS X concept of bundles and the package-dependency concept. This is, bundles are one-click applications, auto mountable file systems which contain all the needed files to run an application which is not in the repositories and automates the installation of dependencies in the repositories if needed. Also, Chakra bundles stores bundle-related user configuration files in the bundle, which assures the user a clean home directory.

Installing Bundles

You just need to open the Bundle Manager (in the "System" category), click on the "download" button of the bundle you want to install and it will mount automatically.

As an alternative you can download the bundle for your architecture directly from the repo, either for i686 or x86_64.

Please make sure the path to your downloaded bundle file (.cb file), does not contain open spaces, so no path like this /home/username/user project/bundle.cb, but /home/username/user_project/bundle.cb

Once downloaded this way, just click on the bundle and it will be installed or, more specifically, mounted. This means the original file will be moved to $HOME/.cinstall/repo/, leaving a .desktop file behind, which you can use to run the app whenever you want, saving all your settings. It will also be accessible from your applications menu or KRunner.

Improving Appearance

Chakra provides a package, gtk-integration to improve the appearance of your bundles and gtk-apps from the CCR. It includes a nice icon theme, a widget theme and an app to change your Gtk fonts.

See also

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Bundle System Learn how bundles work internally and how to create them.

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Bundle Buildsystem This build system is used to create and update Chakra Official Bundles.

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