Repositories

From The Chakra Project

Contents 1 Repository List 1.1 Main Repositories 1.2 Testing Repositories 1.3 Unstable Repositories 2 Managing Repositories 3 See Also

Repositories Chakra Repositories are full of binary packages for KDE, Qt and CLI applications, upgraded right after their upstream releases.

Repository List

Main Repositories

Chakra has four main repositories. There are also <repository>-testing versions of each, where testers make sure everything is okay before moving to stable repositories.

core

Base of the system.

platform

Additional packages and KDE Software Compilation dependencies.

desktop

KDE Software Compilation packages and Chakra tools.

apps

Additional KDE/Qt applications.

games

Games and other gaming-related software.

lib32

x86_64 packages compiled against i686 libraries.

Testing Repositories

Before getting into stable, some packages are previously tested, put in a testing repository. These are the testing repositories currently available:

testing

General packages to be later moved to the stable repositories.

lib32-testing

x86_64 packages compiled against i686 libraries, to be later moved to the stable repositories.

Unstable Repositories

There are some applications and other software that are still considered to be unstable, but are included in Chakra anyway. There are also packages built right from the CVS, not waiting for an official release.

Notice that you can't have both CVS and non-CVS versions of the same package installed. Example: you can install rekonq from [apps] or rekonq-git from [unstable], but you can't have both installed at the same time.

unstable

Development versions of general packages

kde-unstable

Development versions of KDE Software Compilation packages (only in use when testing RC of major KDE updates)

Managing Repositories

Repositories are listed at the end of the /etc/pacman.conf like this:

[repository-name]
Include = /path/to/mirrors/list

By default, the path to the mirror list is /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
Following this syntax, you can add, remove and replace your current repositories.

See Also

• Repository page in Chakra Website

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Mirrors Chakra mirrors are servers which store Chakra packages so you can choose one closer to you location than the main server, both reducing the main server charge and your download time. Everybody wins.

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