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I want to suggest a few programs maybe to be installed by default in your next update:

mpv media player - A cross platform media player. Figure out how to implement this to peropesis.
yt-dlp - A program that installs youtube files.
neofetch - A program that displays ascii art and some info.
tmux - Use multiple terminals.

Hope you install them!

Thanks, aronas

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Hello!

I'm interested to hear your reasons for installing and using mpv application within Peropesis. What are your thoughts on screen utility? Also, how did you manage to install Peropesis on the hard drive? I can't quite figure it out!

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I want to suggest a few programs maybe to be installed by default in your next update:

In the meantime I would like to suggest you trying a cross-platform and source-based package manager pkgsrc. It comes from NetBSD, but works on Glibc-based Linuces too. I built some software like Rust, Clang, diffr, delta earlier this year using it on Ubuntu and Debian.

mpv media player - A cross platform media player. Figure out how to implement this to peropesis.
yt-dlp - A program that installs youtube files.
neofetch - A program that displays ascii art and some info.
tmux - Use multiple terminals.

Three of them are in the stable repository of pkgsrc:
https://pkgsrc.se/multimedia/mpv
https://pkgsrc.se/net/yt-dlp
https://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/neofetch

... and one still sits in the testing (WIP) repo:
https://pkgsrc.se/wip/tmux-git

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Hey, all,

Thank you for suggestions. I made a note of the suggestions and I'll think about it.

Dainis, Peropesis 2.8 edition is not adapted for writing distribution to hard disk.

For the pkgsrc. I tried to install in Peropesis 2.8, works perfectly:

get pkgsrc
$ wget http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/pkgsrc.tar.xz
$ tar -xvf pkgsrc.tar.xz

bootstrap
$ cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
$ ./bootstrap --prefix /opt/pkg-2024Q3 --prefer-pkgsrc yes --make-jobs 4

build a package (I built BitchX)
$ cd pkgsrc/chat/BitchX
$ /opt/pkg-2024Q3/bin/bmake install

run the installed program
$ /opt/pkg-2024Q3/bin/BitchX

Lets try to install mpv. Does it work?

P.S. It would be a nice idea if someone developed package manager for Peropesis.

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P.S. It would be a nice idea if someone developed package manager for Peropesis.

One of the reasons I distro hop so much and have trouble finding a distribution I want to stay with is because I have my own build system/package manager and don't want to give it up just to use a Linux distro. Am curious what features you'd want in a custom package manager. Personally, I liked the way Slackware did things and how their Slackbuild scripts worked but wanted something with the ease of templates so I could automate changes and don't have to change all the package build scripts by hand when a modification is needed.

I build several command line programs from source. When I would used some smaller Linux distributions, there was no way to share personal builds of software with other users. Is there a way to do that with Peropesis?

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Hello, lm8,

There is no direct possibility to share personal builds of software with other users in the Peropesis project. Until then, maybe you can share a link to your projects, it would be interesting to get to know them.

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I have at least a couple of hundred programs and libraries I build from source. They're not all command line though. It's sort of like BLFS. I use my own scripts to build them. At this point, I build the software mainly for myself so I haven't shared more than bits and pieces. I do use several command line programs which I've built from source such as abc2midi, abcm2ps, diffh, lxsplit, gle, graphicsmagick, pdftxt, sdcv, etc.

It would be nice if there was a way users of Peropesis could share software. Maybe something similar to Arch's AUR or Slackware's SlackBuilds.org?

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Until such possibility is created, someone could create repository for scripts/binaries for the Peropesis user community on his initiative as independent project.

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Yeah multiple terminals would definitely be useful!

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its true!

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In the Peropesis system is installed GNU Screen multiplexer. This program should be very similar to tmux.

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Greetings,
I would suggest these utilities:

dosfstools -- mkfs, fsck, attr & label for FAT filesystems
htop -- interactive process viewer
lspci -- list all PCI devices
p7zip -- command-line version of 7-Zip
rtorrent -- a quick and efficient BitTorrent client
weechat -- a highly extendable and feature rich IRC client
which -- shows the full path of the specified command

Maybe you could also add some useful ncurses-based tools like wiki-tui -- see: https://terminaltrove.com/categories/ncurses/ .

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Hi, Oifan,

Thanks for your suggestions. I think all of the programs you mentioned are useful and could be distributed with the Peropesis distribution in the future. I noticed that the htop and which programs are very similar to the top and whereis programs that are currently distributed with the Peropesis distribution.

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