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Installation

Requirements

  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or later — Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, and any other official flavor
  • GTK4 and libadwaita 1.5 — included with Ubuntu 24.04, no extra packages needed

All other runtime dependencies are standard system packages available from the Ubuntu archive. No pip installs, no virtual environments.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tecktron-studios/repoman
sudo apt update && sudo apt install repoman

Via .deb package

Download the .deb from the GitHub releases page and install it:

sudo dpkg -i repoman_*.deb
sudo apt install -f   # resolves any missing dependencies

Manual install from source

For developers or those who want to build from source. Installs to /usr/ by default.

1. Install runtime dependencies

sudo apt install \
    python3-gi \
    gir1.2-gtk-4.0 \
    gir1.2-adw-1 \
    gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 \
    python3-debian \
    python3-launchpadlib \
    python3-requests \
    python3-xlib \
    policykit-1 \
    lsb-release

2. Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/Tecktron/repoman.git
cd repoman
sudo make install

To install to /usr/local instead of /usr:

sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local

3. Launch

repoman will appear in your application menu under System. You can also launch it from a terminal:

repoman

Uninstalling

cd repoman
sudo make uninstall

What make install installs

Path Contents
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/repoman/ Python package
/usr/bin/repoman Entry point
/usr/lib/repoman/polkit-helper Privileged write helper
/usr/share/applications/ Desktop entry
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/ App icon (SVG + 8 PNG sizes)
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ Polkit policy
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ GSettings schema
/usr/share/metainfo/ AppStream metadata
/usr/share/repoman/suite-agnostic.conf Suite name configuration

After installing, make runs glib-compile-schemas, gtk-update-icon-cache, and systemctl reload polkit automatically.