FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions & Misc

Broken & Not Portable Packages

• If you find a $PKG that doesn't work (segfaults/crashes) or some other errors, it will be treated as a bug.

• First, try to diagnose, and see if it only affects you.

• Also search online and in the Issues Page, if there are entries about your Issue.

• Also, read the relevant entry of your format to see if it's an Edge Case

• $PKG.AppBundle

• $PKG.AppImage

• $PKG.Archives

• $PKG.FlatImage

• $PKG.GameImage

• $PKG.NixAppImage

• $PKG.RunImage

• Finally, create an Issue (Include as much info as possible, including your Distro, Desktop Environments, Window Managers, XDG_ENV, [ENV_VARS (env)]

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Setup & Configure Local Build Environment

1. This uses the same Runners & Build Environment as Toolpacks (BinCache)

2. Initial steps are same, but you will also have to have a Hugging Face Token, check setup_env.sh for details

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Why not host on GitHub?

1. Because GitHub has very conservative limits: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-large-files/about-large-files-on-github

2. Hugging Face has generous limits & inbuilt support for LFS

3. Last but not least, to avoid https://docs.pkgforge.dev/orgs/pkgforge-core/projects/pkgcache/dmca-or-copyright-cease-and-desist

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Public Tools Search

• GitHub Search: is:public archived:false template:false stars:>5 GUI OR Portable OR Package (Sorted By: Recently Updated)

• List: https://github.com/stars/Azathothas/lists/soarpkgs-tba

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Public Code Search

• GitHub Search: NOT user:Azathothas NOT user:xplshn NOT user:metis-os NOT user:pkgforge NOT user:pkgforge-community NOT user:pkgforge-dev NOT user:pkgforge-security NOT is:fork pkgforge.dev

• Google|Bing|Baidu: "*pkgforge.dev" -site:pkgforge.dev -site:ajam.dev

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History & Lore

• @Azathothas drafted repos & projects which would eventually become Toolpacks, ~ July, 2023, You can read more about it here: https://docs.pkgforge.dev/orgs/pkgforge-core/projects/toolpacks-bincache/faq#history-and-lore

• Life was fun & everything was okay until: Azathothas/Toolpacks#28, this made @Azathothas go down a rabbit hole where he discovered formats like: AppBundles | AppImages | FlatImages | RunImages

• Those didn't really fit the theme of Toolpacks, and thus this repo came into Existence ~ Sep 25, 2024 , later it served as an ingestor, after SoarPkgs ~ Nov 04, 2024