Listaller Project

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What is Listaller?

Listaller is a simple set-up creation- and installation system, which creates cross-distribution installable packages.

It is quite easy to use, developers can build installations using an GUI-wizard or via commandline, and users find an easy-to-use setup wizard on every software installation.
Listaller combines the strength of the package management with the power of single installation packages.
Listaller installation packages (extension: *.ipk) can be installed on many different Linux distributions, but the IPK packages do not replace the distribution's package system.
The software was not designed to install libraries or something other shared stuff, it's aim is to unify and to simplify software installations on Linux.
So, Listaller's IPK-packages can be only pointers to DEB/RPM packages too, to get an one-click-installation for the users. If this doesn't work they can install the "normal" packages too.

Listaller also provides a graphical application management tool, which is compatible with Autopackage,LOKI/Mojo,IPK and native package installations. So end-users can manage all applications, independent from how they were installed. In version 0.4 we will have a developer API to create custom frontends for removing and installing packages.
The project is based on the great PackageKit project, so it will run on most Linux distributions. It also uses PolicyKit and a SQLite database.

Try Listaller?

Click on the item "Get Listaller" in the main menu an you'll get further instructions to download a snapshot of Listaller. Attention: The Listaller snapshots were only fast-tested!

We need help!

Do you want to support the Listaller project? Great! You can help to translate the Listaller applications in other Languages, help writing the documentation, design new banners or icons and - of course - help developing the Listaller application(s). Alternatively you can build IPK packages for our getIPK service. Look at our "Get Involved" page and join our team at Launchpad for more information. If you want to get in contact with us, please leave an message on our mailinglist.

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 January 2010 12:22

Get snapshots of the Listaller development branch at http://ppa.launchpad.net/ximion/ubuntu/pool/main/l/listaller/

You can report bugs, commit blueprints for new features at Launchpad.
If you have questions about Listaller you can also go to Launchpad and ask them there. (Click on the "Answers" tab)

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Project news:

  • Listaller 0.4 snapshots available

    Since today we will offer precompiled Listaller 0.4 snapshot packages on our download page. Listaller 0.4 needs to be tested before it is released and the snapshots give us the perfect opportunity to receive some user-feedback.
    We are miles away from the first beta release, but people who wanted to test Listaller got only the old 0.3 release. The 0.3 release with IPK/IPS0.8 is not really usable anymore, because no packages exist to install.
    Cause Listaller has had only preview releases until 0.4, we will replace the generic download page with a "snaphot download-page", where new compiled Listaller snaphots can be downloaded.

  • PackageKit 0.5.4 and Listaller

    PackageKit just switched to a new interface API using GLib2, which is available in the PackageKit 0.5 series.
    Because the upcoming Listaller 0.4 release will be the first stable Listaller release, we decided to use the new PackageKit API and drop the support for all lower versions.
    As consequence of this, Listaller 0.4 will depend on minimum PackageKit version 0.5.3. This means, that older Linus distributions will need an upgrade to a higher PackageKit version, which is sometimes impossible because of missing dependencies. This is really bad, but we do not want to ship old messy code within the upcoming release.
    openSUSE and Fedora hopefully will include the new PackageKit version within the new release, for users of Ubuntu Karmic we will create a PPA, containing the new version.
    Debian stable is currently unsupported, we will have support for Debian Squeeze.

  • Listaller API

    We decided to create a fully-functional API for Listaller 0.4. Listaller 0.4 will ship the new libInstaller library, which will help developers to create their own custom Listaller frontends or which can be used by distributors to embed Listaller functions into their distribution-specific tools.
    libInstaller will contain nearly all Listaller functions, except for IPK building support. (We don't want more libuild tools - one is enough)
    The Listaller API can be used with C, C++ and Pascal and all newer Listaller frontends will now be based on the libraries.
    Check out our mailing list or the trunk source code branch for information about the progress of creating the libs.
    The ABI will be stable until Listaller 0.5, but it may change a lot during the development process.

  • Listaller 0.3b released

    Today, Listaller 0.3b was released.
    This version contains many changes and new features. The most important ones are that we now use SQLite3 as application database and that we completely updated the graphical user interface of Listaller Manager.
    Because Listaller 0.4, the upcoming first stable release of Listaller, will contain a complete new IPK/IPS syntax, you should not build packages for productive use with Listaller 0.3b.
    Listaller 0.3b can be seen as a preparation release to Listaller 0.4, details are currently planned.
    Binary packages of Listaller 0.3 will be available later, as soon as we don't have any problems with the build services anymore.
    Have enjoy testing Listaller 0.3b!
    (If you find bugs, please fill a bugreport at Launchpad. If you miss a feature, you can commit a blueprint and we will discuss including the feature in Listaller 0.4)


Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 December 2009 16:52
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