The Collection
A system that performs software installation, upgrades, compilation and configuration. All of this fully automatic. Packages can be optimized and built with different options. Dependencies are also automaticaly installed and updated if required.
Ready built binary packages are also available if you don't like to build the software yourself. It's just a matter of configuring the Collection to download binary packages instead of building from sources. And in case a binary packages is not yet available the system can automaticaly do a compilation instead.
Binary packages are build with default options with sensible optimizations.
Examples
Usage of the TA-Linux Collection is easy, with the pkgc tool. Below are some examples on how the Collection is used.
First update the collection data:
pkgc update
Then install, for example mplayer using:
pkgc install mplayer
You can also do simple searches:
pkgc search mp3
If you would like to upgrade a package run (for mplayer):
pkgc upgrade mplayer
If you would like to upgrade your extra software run:
pkgc upgrade-all
And for upgrading the TA-Linux core packages run:
pkgc upgrade-core
Or both in one go:
pkgc upgrade-world
Meta packages
There are also meta packages, that install a larger software collection. At this time meta packages for GNOME, KDE and XFce are available. You can find them in /usr/local/collection/meta/