Grub Tools on Solus?

SpookyDervish

Hello!

I was compiling a project I had on a different linux distro before switching to Solus, and was wondering what packages to install the grub tools, more specifically grub-mkrescue.

Even better, is there a place to find all the packages for eopkg?

Thanks!

WetGeek

SpookyDervish Even better, is there a place to find all the packages for eopkg?

Try eopkg list-available, or its shortcut, eopkg la. Best to pipe it to less, or maybe grep for the package you want.

alfisya

Solus leverages clr-boot-manager from the ClearLinux project to manage its boot process.
On legacy BIOS systems, clr-boot-manager will configure GRUB2 to properly boot your system.
On modern UEFI systems, clr-boot-manager will configure systemd-boot instead.
This means that any time we want to modify the boot process, clr-boot-manager will be involved.
Trying to modify the configurations manually may work temporarily, but will be overwritten eventually.

You may want to read this. You can search all package via Software Center or via what @WetGeek wrote. Cheers!

SpookyDervish

I had already tried using eopkg search grub in the package lists, not really anything that might come with the tools. I know there is a debian package named "grub-legacy" and another "xorriso"

WetGeek

SpookyDervish I had already tried using eopkg search grub in the package lists

Anything here help?

SpookyDervish

yes i saw those, ill install them and see if they come with grub-mkrescue

SpookyDervish

There we go! I installed the "grub2" package

SpookyDervish

ok i have the command, but now im missing xorriso

WetGeek

SpookyDervish now im missing xorriso

Sorry, xorriso doesn't seem to be available from our repos. Maybe snap or flatpak? Do you know how to search those? (I don't use them.)

Staudey

SpookyDervish The xorriso executable is part of libisoburn

SpookyDervish

no i dont, im quite new to solus

WetGeek

SpookyDervish no i dont, im quite new to solus

Snaps and flatpaks are pretty new to Solus as well, but I'm sure somone else here will be able to give you some help with them. Who here can help this new user with searches of snaps and flatpaks?

WetGeek

WetGeek Who here can help this new user with searches of snaps and flatpaks?

I'm pretty sure @brent is an expert with these. Can you help, please?

SpookyDervish

i knew from the software center in fedora that i could add a repository to use the flatpaks, but that was my first distro. i moved due to nvidia drivers tainting my kernel

SpookyDervish

i found libisoburn using eopkg la ill install it now

SpookyDervish

Thanks!

riffer

I don't know if it's relevant to this discussion, but to use flatpaks you have to add the flathub repo:

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Or at least you used to. Some much is changing lately.