Applications
Curated essentials plus hundreds of additional applications.
Packages, repositories, and applications, oh my.
An overview of the components working together to furnish packages and applications.
Packages
Software bundles
Package Mgr
Control system
Repositories
Structured collections
Applications
Actual programs
BcalcOS Apps
Your software
Packages
Data that's needed to run.
A package bundles an application with its version, dependencies, and installation scripts. It includes metadata telling the system what the software requires and how to configure it. This helps ensure consistent, reliable installations that are easy to update and maintain.
Package Manager
Tracks the packages.
The package manager installs, updates, and removes software while resolving dependencies automatically. On Devuan, dpkg handles low-level .deb operations, while apt provides a user-friendly interface for searching repositories, managing upgrades, and keeping your system synchronized.
Repositories
Holds the code.
Repositories are online collections of packages, organized by version and architecture. In Devuan, these stores align with the project’s init-free philosophy, ensuring all software integrates cleanly with the system.
See Discourse for additional information.
Applications
Programs to run.
Applications are the programs you interact with daily—browsers, editors, media players, and utilities. In BcalcOS, these are delivered as packages from verified repositories, allowing for clean installation, seamless updates, and safe removal via the package manager.
How to install software on BcalcOS?
BcalcOS Apps
Your software.
Users have access to the robust Devuan repository as well as the much more modest BcalcOS repository. This provides instant access to hundreds of packages and applications.
Additional information can be found here.
BcalcOS follows Devuan which follows Debian in using the APT package manager.
- The Devuan repo is the primary source of packages and applications.
- The BcalcOS respository has a limited but growing number of applications.
- Direct binary installation is possible.
- Flatpaks can also be utilized.
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