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The Resource Window

The resource window at the bottom left displays the disk space needed for

your current selection of software on all currently mounted ﬁle systems.

The colored bar graph grows with every selection. As long as it remains

green, there is sufﬁcient space. The bar color slowly changes to red as you

approach the limit of disk space. If you select too many packages for instal-

lation, an alert is displayed.

The Menu Bar

The menu bar at the top left of the window provides access to most of the

functions described above and a number of other functions that cannot be

accessed in any other way. It contains the following four menus:

File Select ‘File’ ➝ ‘Export’ to save a list of all installed packages in a text

ﬁle. This is recommended if you want to replicate a speciﬁc installa-

tion scope at a later date or on another system. A ﬁle generated in this

way can be imported with ‘Import’ and generates the same package

selection as was saved. In both cases, deﬁne the location of the ﬁle or

accept the suggestion.

To exit the package manager without saving changes to the package

selection, click ‘Exit — Discard Changes’. To save your changes, select

‘Quit — Save Changes’. In this case, all changes are applied and the

program is terminated.

Package The items in the ‘Package’ menu always refer to the package cur-

rently displayed in the individual package window. Although all sta-

tus ﬂags are displayed, you can only select those possible for the cur-

rent package. Use the check boxes to determine whether to install the

sources of the package. ‘All in This List’ opens a submenu listing all

package status ﬂags. However, these do not merely affect the current

package, but all packages in this list.

Extras The ‘Extras’ menu offers options for handling package dependen-

cies and conﬂicts. If you have already manually selected packages for

installation, click ‘Show Automatic Package Changes’ to view the list

of packages that the package manager automatically selected to re-

solve dependencies. If there are still unresolved package conﬂicts, an

alert is displayed and solutions suggested.

If you set package conﬂicts to ‘Ignore’, this information is saved per-

manently in the system. Otherwise, you would have to set the same

packages to ‘Ignore’ each time you start the package manager. To

unignore dependencies, click ‘Reset Ignored Dependency Conﬂicts’.

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