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Chiron edited this page Jul 5, 2026 · 7 revisions

To use centaur you need the following dependencies:

  • git
  • cmake
  • make
  • wget (most packages use this to download their tarballs)

To install

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Chiron8/centaur
cd centaur

# Create build directory
mkdir build
cd build

# Install
cmake ..
make
sudo cmake --install .

What's created?

  • centaur binary at /usr/bin/centaur
  • directory containing centaur files (learn more): /etc/centaur/packages/scripts
  • empty directory containing installed packages database: /etc/centaur/packages/installed
  • empty directory containing instructions to uninstall packages: /etc/centaur/packages/uninstall
  • empty directory containing temporary package files: /tmp/centaur. This directory will always be created at boot.
  • empty directory containing temporary files used by centaur*: /etc/centaur/tmp

*the reason for the extra tmp directory is that /tmp is stored in a ramdisk. Some C functions require files to be in the same partition. This does not affect temporary files used by .centaur files.

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