How to update fresh installed Solus?

Right after you've installed Solus on your computer it's good to check the "freshness" of all packages installed in your system. Sometimes in very specific cases it's not good to install the most freshest versions of drivers, libraries and programs, but our case is different. In fresh system you surely want to have current stable versions of packages, so let's check, how fresh our system is.

First, let's upgrade repositories:

$ sudo eopkg upgrade

Then let's upgrade packages:

$ sudo eopkg up

In my case system has found a big amount of packages to update:

Total size of package(s): 710.39 MB
There are extra packages due to dependencies.
Do you want to continue? (yes/no)y

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Written by Administrator on Monday April 27, 2020

How to install ImageMagick in Solus

Imagemagick is a powerful tool to images processing and it's in Solus repository, so installation is very fast and easy:

$ sudo eopkg install imagemagick

If you have default fresh Solus installation, your system will download and install some additional libraries needed for running ImageMagick.

Output:

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Written by Administrator on Sunday April 26, 2020

Installing basic tools for coding/sw development in Solus OS

If you need coding and developments tools in Solus OS, you can install all the basic programming tools running following commands:

$ sudo eopkg it -c system.devel

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Written by Administrator on Monday April 6, 2020

How to install Flameshot in Solus OS

Solus OS has it's own package manager for installing and uninstalling programs: eopkg.

Let' install popular screenshot maker on our Solus OS system:

$ sudo eopkg install flameshot

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Written by Administrator on Sunday April 5, 2020