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Can I add my own package to Thinstation?

April 26, 2017package thinstation

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Can I add my own package to Thinstation?

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Yes. It requires some Linux/programming skills, though. Make a folder in packages and make a copy of the package template and distribute all your files in the directory layout the Thinstation style, i.e. packages//bin and packages//lib. Don’t use sbin, put everything in bin. Also, don’t use var, or usr, these are just symlinks to tmp, everything in temp is created through the etc/init.d/XXXX scripts. Use /etc/init.d/XXXX scripts to do all your initilization as only tmp is writable. All other files are read-only, so anything which needs to be changed, needs to be a symlink to a file in temp. You need to link against glibc 2.1.3 (available precompiled from the thinstation-developer source code). You’ll find ldd very useful to determine dependencies.