Friday, April 11, 2008

PiSi - The Pardus Package Manager

PiSi (Packages Installed Successfully, as Intended) (pronounced pee-see) is the package management system of Pardus. It is the tool that installs, upgrades and removes the software packages.

Layout

Configuring Repisitories

Installing Application

Further information for PiSi can be found here.

PiSi package manager sits in your system tray and informs you of available updates. The frquency for checking for the updates can be set under "Configure Package Manager"(General Settings Tab)"

Pardus is a KDE based distribution. But if you want to install Gnome packages you can add this repository to PiSi package manager. This can be done through "Configure Package Manager" (Repositories Tab).

Repository Name: Contrib

Repository Address: http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib-2007/pisi-index.xml.bz2

Ganesh


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Thursday, April 10, 2008

About Pardus Linux

PARDUS is a Turkish Linux distribution developed by Scientific & Technological research council of Turkey. One of the main goals of Pardus is to ensure Easy Installation and Usage.

It is currently listed among the top 100 distros in DISTROWATCH. The recent version of Pardus is codenamed "Lynx lynx". Pardus Linux comes in two flavors. There's the installation CD called "Kurulan" and the live CD named "Calisan". The download page can be found HERE.