Crackle

NOTE if you were using crackle before v0.5 you will need to nuke your crackle install first before installing

A project started by Fuseteam, inspired by Pacstall, and nyaa

Crackle is a client which makes possible to setup nix home manager on Ubuntu Touch, by utilizing the XDG Base Directory specification.

Installation

The project is currently a bunch of bash scripts, as such installation relatively simple~

• Download the code

• open a terminal
• run unzip Downloads/crackle.zip -d crackle
• run crackle/crackle setup
• ???
• profit

One liner

wget -q -O - https://github.com/tuxecure/crackle/releases/download/v0.5.4.1/upgradefunc| bash -s install

Usage

To run the program, specify the operation, and the package to act on.

crackle
	- setup
	- debug
	- crack $PKG
	- sudo $BIN
	- sudok $BIN
	- click $PKG
	- clean
	- install
	- remove
	- update
	- list
	- nuke
	- help

Crackle commands:

• setup: Automagically configures and installs/upgrades crackle, nix and home-manager
• debug: Shows some debugging information. Doesn't do any changes to the system.
• click debug: Shows some debugging information about the click configuration. Doesn't do any changes to the system.
• sudo debug: Shows some debugging information about the sudo configuration. Doesn't do any changes to the system.
• crack: this will extract the package $PKG and it's dependencies to $HOME/packages/$PKG for easy inspection, usefull to see the file tree or navigate through the various files associated with the package or its dependencies
• sudo: this will make a symlink of the binary $BIN to /root/.local/bin for use with sudo -i $BIN or if avaialble /snap/bin for use with sudo $BIN
• sudok: this will remove the symlink of the binary $BIN created by crackle sudo $BIN
• click: this will build a click package from the downloaded deb packages
• clean: run nix-collect-garbage and removed all apt related directories and broken symlinks
• install: adds (a) package(s) to ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix and runs home-manager switch to activate the package(s)
• remove: remove (a) package(s) to ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix and runs home-manager switch to remove the package(s)
• update: run nix-channel --update to get the latest updates from the nix cache and runs home-manager switch to activate the newer version
• list: list installed applications
• nuke: Automagically removes everything crackle installed from the system
• help: shows the available commands of crackle

Limitations

the following are the limitations of crackle:

• expects apt for the installation of curl and xz, needed for setting up nix

Support

Support, question and suggestions for crackle can be filed on GitLab. There is also a discussion & support group on Telegram

Status

Crackle should be considered Beta, there may be some lingering bugs and/or edge cases.