Official Solus packaging guide available from https://getsol.us. It boils down to a few commands that initialize chroot environment. Run once in terminal, with sudo
eopkg install -y go-task ypkg git solbuild-config-unstable solbuild make
solbuild init -p unstable-x86_64
solbuild update -p unstable-x86_64Now you can build experimental packages
Convert Microsoft Word files to plain text, see man antiword for
details. Build with make antiword, when path-to-eopkg-file gets
printed to the screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Assemble and disassemble Android apk files, see homepage for details.
Build with make apktool, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
A utility for displaying current network utilization by process,
connection and remote IP/hostname. See man bandwhich for details.
Build with make bandwhich, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
A native Clojure interpreter for scripting with fast startup. Build
with make bb, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen,
install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
An ASCII diagramming tool, for more details see home page. Build with
make ditaa, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen,
install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Simulate IO load, for more details see below. Build with make fio,
when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
Simulate disk read with fio read.ini | grep READ | awk '{print $2}'
where read.ini is
[global]
randrepeat=1
ioengine=libaio
bs=4k
ba=4k
size=1G
direct=1
gtod_reduce=1
norandommap
iodepth=64
numjobs=1
[randomreads]
startdelay=0
filename=sb-io-test
readwrite=randread
Simulate disk write with fio write.ini | grep WRITE | awk '{print $2}'
where write.ini is
[global]
randrepeat=1
ioengine=libaio
bs=4k
ba=4k
size=1G
direct=1
gtod_reduce=1
norandommap
iodepth=64
numjobs=1
[randomwrites]
startdelay=0
filename=sb-io-test
readwrite=randwrite
A CPU stress test utility, for more details see FIRESTARTER --help.
Build with make firestarter, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to
the screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
A quick and easy to use retro adventure game creator, for more
information see home page. Build with make gbstudio, when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
A program for splitting and merging maps in Garmin format, for more
details see home page. Build with make gmaptool, when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
A portable command-line driven graphing utility, for more details see
man gnuplot. Build with make gnuplot, when path-to-eopkg-file gets
printed to the screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
GPS log file viewer and analyzer that supports all common GPS log file
formats. Build with make gpxsee, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed
to the screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Hunspell dictionary for Ukrainian, for more details see man hunspell.
Build with make hunspell-uk, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to
the screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Font designed for code, terminals, technical documents. Build with
make iosevka, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen,
install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Janet is an embeddable and prototyping language. It has a rich core
library, a REPL, a compiler, and a jpm build tool, for more details
see man janet and man jpm . Build with make janet, when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal, see man kitty
for details. Build with make kitty, when path-to-eopkg-file gets
printed to the screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Packaging kodi takes 30 to 60 minutes and 10G of free space. In
project directory run make kodi - after a while the command will write
to the screen path-to-eopkg-file. Install it on your Solus system
with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file. Now you can run kodi and point
it to your library to get media played on your living room PC. To
stream videos with kodi you’ll need google account and youtube addon
from kodi official repository.
Kodi v19 introduced Retroplayer - an integrated libretro
frontend. When compared with Retroarch, Retroplayer UI is simplistic,
but it makes retrogaming instantly available without having to
ducktape retroarch launchers. Libretro cores are available from
libretro buildbot. First install unofficial repository addon, then
browse the repository and install libretro cores specific to your
emulation needs. Kodi ten feet UI works best with a gamepad, and with
Retroplayer emulation is as easy as playing media file.
Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages. Build with make
languagetool, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen,
install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool based on Aceprite. Build with
make libresprite, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen,
install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Just-in-time compiler and drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, for more
details see man luajit. Build with make luajit, when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
Get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company,
for more details see homepage. Build with make metabase, when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
A tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format,
for details see info mu. Build with make mu, when path-to-eopkg-file
gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg install
path-to-eopkg-file.
Convert markup text into other formats, see man pandoc3 for details.
Build with make pandoc3, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Convert pdf files to djvu format, see man pdf2djvu for details. Build
with make pdf2djvu, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
A console version of StarDict, see man sdcv for details. Build with
make sdcv, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install
with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Manage virtual network, see homepage for details. Build with make
tailscale, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install
with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Also known as mapeditor - a tile map editor for all tile-based games,
such as RPGs, platformers or Breakout clones. Build with make tiled,
when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
Convert tiled maps into Lua data, see tmx2lua --help for details.
Build with make tmx2lua, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Realtime plotting utility for terminal/console with data input from
stdin, see man ttyplot for details. Build with make ttyplot, when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
A cli tool that helps signing and zip aligning single or multiple
Android application packages, see homepage for details. Build with
make uber-apk-signer, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data,
see man vd for details. Build with make visidata when
path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg
install path-to-eopkg-file.
A modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load
when run on a single multi-core CPU, see wrk --help for details.
Build with make wrk when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the
screen, install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining
robust, optimal, and reusable software. See zig -h for details. Build
with make ziglang, when path-to-eopkg-file gets printed to the screen,
install with eopkg install path-to-eopkg-file.
Bibliography manager. Build with make zotero, when path-to-eopkg-file
gets printed to the screen, install with eopkg install
path-to-eopkg-file.