Listaller is a new software management and installation system for Linux.

Listaller is a tool that makes it easier to install applications on Linux. Each developer can use its favored system for the installation (DEB/RPM, Loki Installer, DEPGet, Autopackage) further, Listaller will help to manage all installed programs and will be compatible to all other install-systems for Linux.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Features:
· Added BinReloc to Listaller core again (Matthias Klumpp)
· binreloc: Experimental support for *BSD (Anders F. Björklund)
· Include the APBuild tool (Matthias Klumpp)
· apbuild: Using new libgee API for accessing keys of a HashMap. (Jan Niklas Hasse)
· First bits of automatic dependency detection (Matthias Klumpp)
· Add options to change default libdir (Matthias Klumpp)
· Add Listaller PackageKit PlugIn (Matthias Klumpp)
· Add possibility to specify libdir prefix in ./prepare (Matthias Klumpp)
· Improved libuild dependency detection (Matthias Klumpp)
· Cleanup: Remove listallerd data files (Matthias Klumpp)
· Provide feeds for some dependencies & sort out standard deps (Matthias Klumpp)
· Store long description in main database (Matthias Klumpp)
· Improved dependency feed handling (Matthias Klumpp)
· Compare package versions if same package is already installed (Matthias Klumpp)
· Use PackageKit for dependency installing (Matthias Klumpp)
· Implement basic feed-dependency downloading & extracting (Matthias Klumpp)
· Always prefer native distribution packages (Matthias Klumpp)
· Add methods to register dependencies in database (Matthias Klumpp)
· Check the database if dependency is already installed (Matthias Klumpp)
· Install a few manpages (Matthias Klumpp)
· Include the patchelf utility, but disable it (Matthias Klumpp)
· appcompile: Support CMake & arguments (Matthias Klumpp)
· Various improvements to make dependency search faster (Matthias Klumpp)
· Automagically update .desktop file paths, even if no var is set (Matthias Klumpp)
· Use own stat()-based mechanism to look for libraries. (Matthias Klumpp)
· Automatically close the software-database (Matthias Klumpp)
· Add /usr/lib/$arch-$os-gnu/mesa to list of valid library paths (Matthias Klumpp)
· Apply a set of installation speed-improvements (Matthias Klumpp)
· Create new PkResolver to perform resolve actions for native pkgs (Matthias Klumpp)
· Apply parts of the dependency-component handling, important stuff is still
· missing in PackageKit. (Matthias Klumpp)
· Some preparations for direct PkBackend usage (Matthias Klumpp)
· Added ugly method to request GPG passwords (Matthias Klumpp)
· Make cmake install LIBDIR multiarch-aware (Matthias Klumpp)
· Add a Fedora spec file template that builds listaller (Richard Hughes)
· Fix up some warnings in the PK plugin (Richard Hughes)
· plugin: Use the correct function names to fix PackageKit (Richard Hughes)
· plugin: Split the lists once and early for speed (Richard Hughes)
· plugin: Correctly connect ListallerManager object with callbacks (Matthias Klumpp)
· plugin: Set a log domain so the packagekitd daemon knows what's printing messages (Richard Hughes)
· plugin: Only rescan the application list after modifying roles (Richard Hughes)

Specifications:
· Updated dependency-extra list format (is now RFC822-style) (Matthias Klumpp)
· Use type-specific dependencies instead of dependencies on "files" (Matthias Klumpp)
· Move state information to /var/lib (Matthias Klumpp)
· Implement a dependency-id (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
· Remove internal libc ELF headers from vLDD (Matthias Klumpp)
· Depend runapp on listaller-glib, allows parallel builds (Matthias Klumpp)
· Remove \r's from nl translation (Matthias Klumpp)
· Compile with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (Matthias Klumpp)
· Fix uninstaller error handling (Matthias Klumpp)
· Adjust to new PackageKit 0.7 API (Matthias Klumpp)
· Register IPK mime type again (Matthias Klumpp)
· Use PREFIXDIR in Listaller settings (Matthias Klumpp)
· Fix database application listing (Matthias Klumpp)
· Bugfix: Installation fails if there are no dependencies defined (Matthias Klumpp)
· Build in Debug mode by default (for development versions) (Matthias Klumpp)
· Process variables _after_ everything was installed (Matthias Klumpp)
· Consider all dependencies as satisfied when in testmode (Matthias Klumpp)
· Fix deadlock when application is registered (Matthias Klumpp)
· libuild: Fix installing all files into one directory (Matthias Klumpp)
· Display warning if dependency idname or full_name is empty (Matthias Klumpp)
· plugin: Fix sigsegv on loading applist (Matthias Klumpp)
· plugin: Fix pointer deferencing to make package and files removal work (Richard Hughes)
· plugin: Ensure the transaction gets properly finished if listaller can handle all the ids (Richard Hughes)