Pkgx seems to work fine

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#1

In case anyone was wondering, pkgx seems to work quite well on sfos:

[defaultuser@Xperia10III ~]$ ./pkgx deno@1.33 --version
✓  ~/.pkgx/deno.land/v1.33.4
deno 1.33.4 (release, aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu)
v8 11.4.183.2
typescript 5.0.4
[defaultuser@Xperia10III ~]$ ./pkgx gcc@13 --version
✓  ~/.pkgx/gnu.org/mpc/v1.3.1
✓  ~/.pkgx/gnu.org/mpfr/v4.2.1
✓  ~/.pkgx/gnu.org/gmp/v6.3.0
✓  ~/.pkgx/gnu.org/binutils/v2.42.0
✓  ~/.pkgx/gnu.org/gcc/v13.2.0
gcc (tea GCC 13.2.0) 13.2.0
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[defaultuser@Xperia10III ~]$ ./pkgx node@20 --version
v20.12.2

Just managed to compile GitHub - smallstep/cli: 🧰 A zero trust swiss army knife for working with X509, OAuth, JWT, OATH OTP, etc. on device, so looks like it’s one way to get a working go compiler on sfos (from sources is a nightmare as newer versions require go and newest gcc compilable go source is x86 only). Pretty cool
Edit: node@20 did require installing libatomic
Edit2: yes they got infamous for using AI to generate package descriptions I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at https://pkgx.dev/pkgs/? · Issue #5358 · pkgxdev/pantry · GitHub but thanks to that learned about the project, didn’t trust their curl/sh way of installing things so just extracted the release binary to home and symlinked to /usr/bin, all the downloads end up in ~/.pkgx which is nice, their way to integrate seems to work great so far:

eval "$(pkgx integrate)"
env +node

And you get latest node (requires gcc10 otherwise)

#2

If you don’t trust the curl shell script which you can actually read first, you most certainly should not trust the compiled binary!

Still, thanks for trying it out!

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#3

Bash scripts that check for debian/fedora/arch etc don’t really do well with detecting sfos, I’d rather copy the binary myself and symlink to save 150mb of rootfs

#4

Ah, yes, that’s a valid point :slight_smile: So you’re running deno/node on the phone?

#5

Quite a lot of people do as microtube ships its own nodejs18/npm build :slight_smile:

#6

Heh :slight_smile: That is why I’ve never installed microtube.