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+| Glacier |
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+Glacier is a package manager designed for Everest Linux. It retrieves package source code, and commpiles it
+locally on your machine, resulting in incredibly optimized packages.
+
+Glacier was historically written in Bash, while newer versions (>4.0.0) are mainly written in C.
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+| Included Programs |
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+
+	- gpkg
+	- syspkg
+	- gquery
+	- glist
+	- gpc
+	- glacier-mkprofile
+	- glacier-update-pkgdb
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+| Installation |
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+
+Installing Glacier is not recommended on other distributions due to how fundamentally integrated it is with
+Everest.
+
+If you wish to continue anyways, follow these steps below:
+
+Glacier requires the following libraries for compilation:
+
+	- libcolor
+	- libconfig
+	- libglacier
+
+Once these libraries are installed, clone this repository:
+
+	$ git clone https://git.everestlinux.org/EverestLinux/glacier
+
+Enter the directory, modify config.mk to your liking, and compile:
+
+	$ cd glacier
+	$ $EDITOR config.mk
+	$ make
+
+Install Glacier:
+
+	# make install
+
+Once Glacier is installed, first time setup must be completed. These steps can be found at:
+https://everestlinux.org/docs/glacier-setup
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+| Copyright |
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+
+(C) 2021-2024 Everest Developers
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+this program.
+If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.