Packages

Packages made specially for mkOS will always be available as binary packages and source code from Sourceforge. Software packaged for mkOS will be available from the mkOS repository as well as debian packages for the mkOS-tools, meta packages and configuration.

Repository HOWTO:

The repository will become publicly available when mkOS 2.0 final is released.

mkOS-Tools Status:

For the moment the mkos-tools are still in development and only available from GIT. When the packages are marked stable there will be source tarballs and deb packages available from the download page.

Included in the repo so far are:

• ChrootBuilder (pre-alpha)
• KernelBuilder (pre-alpha)
• BashTranslator (beta)
• MetaCreator (stable)
• MyChrootUtils (stable)

Source Code:

Source code for the mkOS-Tools is available from our GIT repository on sourceforge. If you would like to help with the development of this project as a developer or tester please feel free to do so.

GIT HOWTO:

Checking-out the code from GIT is a piece of cake. First make sure git is installed on your computer by opening a terminal and type: git --help
If this returns a list of options your good to go, else check out how to install GIT on your OS. Google mostly has an awnser for you if you don't know how.

If GIT is present on your system create the directory in which you would like to store the code and open a terminal there. Type the following command to checkout the repository:

git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/mkos/code mkos-code

The code is all shell scripts so you don't have to compile anything. Just copy the files to the root of your testing chroot or relink the included config files to test. When testing on mkOS all dependencies are installed, on other OS make sure you install all depends (EasyBashGui, YAD, Zenity). Why all these dependencies? Well these scripts are also examples for bash dialog tools included in mkOS. If you tend to use the scripts on a different OS then you can also fork all to use YAD by making some minor changes so there is only 1 dependency left. The bash translator also likes poedit to be installed for editing the translation files.