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Keryx is a free, open source application for updating your computer. The Keryx Project started as a way for users with dialup, or low-bandwidth internet to be able to download and update packages on their Debian based distribution of linux. Keryx allows users to select packages to install, check for updates, and download these packages onto a USB portable storage device. The packages are saved onto the device and are then taken back to the computer that needs the new software.
Keryx’s design allows for multiple interfaces along with support for other operating systems. Officially Debian and Debian based distros are currently the only supported OSes to download packages for, however other Linux distributions and a Windows plugin will be supported as well in the future. Developers can write plugins to support other operating systems and also plugins to enhance the interface as well.
Version 0.12 and previous are based on PyGTK but future releases will be using wxWidgets for the interface. Ubuntu/Debian users do not need to install any packages to run Keryx 0.12 and earlier. Any other operating systems will need Python, PyGTK and GTK installed to run version 0.12 and earlier. A planned feature will be prebuilt binaries so that no software will need to be installed when running on a Windows PC.
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Keryx 0.9 Screenshots on Windows
For instructions on running Keryx, see the README file included in the archive.
In order to use the interface on Linux you will need the following four packages installed, otherwise you can use the commandline parameters listed in the README or by using the ‘–help’ parameter.
python-wxversion, python-wxgtk2.8, libwxgtk2.8-0, libwxbase2.8-0
We have packaged these into archives for hardy and intrepid so that you don’t have to search around for them and can grab them all together easily:
hardy x86 - http://keryx.betaserver.org/downloads/Hardy_i386.tar.bz2
hardy x64 - http://keryx.betaserver.org/downloads/Hardy_amd64.tar.bz2
intrepid x86 - http://keryx.betaserver.org/downloads/Intrepid_i386.tar.bz2
intrepid x64 - http://keryx.betaserver.org/downloads/Intrepid_amd64.tar.bz2
or you can download these for your specific version of Ubuntu here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/
A full featured Keryx tutorial is available at crashsystems.net The tutorial uses a fresh installation of Ubuntu and Keryx to gather all 200+ updates for installation on the offline Ubuntu machine. It goes through every step from start to finish. Check it out here. Or view a tutorial in sinhala.
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Copyright (C) 2008- 2009 Chris Oliver
Keryx is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.Keryx is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Keryx; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
You can view a copy of the GNU General Public License here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
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Contact Chris Oliver:
email - excid3 (at) gmail (dot) com
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Open source is a wonderful thing, everything is provided free of charge and free distributable. Unfortunately development costs time and money, if you found this program useful and would like to help contribute, donations are encouraged and appreciated very much.
Help get the word out! Keryx has been seen in the following magazines and news articles:
January 2009 - Linux Journal Magazine - Issue #177 - New Projects Section
