Glacier

Glacier is the package management system for Everest Linux. It controls all user-installed packages on the system. Glacier is designed from the ground up, and uses a simple, PKGBUILD-like format, for ease of use.

Get started

Glacier requires the following packages:

• Bash (Glacier runtime)
• GNU make
• GCC (or any compatible C compiler)
• Git
• Autoconf
• Automake

To install Glacier, clone this repository:

git clone https://git.everestlinux.org/EverestLinux/glacier
cd glacier/install

Inside the install directory, edit install.conf.dist, ensure all options are adequate, and save as install.conf:

EDITOR=your_editor_here
$EDITOR install.conf.dist

Run build.sh as root:

doas ./build.sh install
# OR
sudo ./build.sh install
# OR
su -c ./build.sh install