What is kal-shlib-common ?

This is part of kal-shlib-* package, you should see documentation of kal-shlib-core for more general information.

How can install it ?

From source

Consider this release as Very Alpha. Use at your own risk. It may or may not upgrade to a more user friendly version in future, depending on my spare time.

Nevertheless, this package support GNU install quite well so a simple:

autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install

Should work (and has been tested and is currently used).

Note

you can specify a prefix thanks to --prefix=/your/location as configure argument.

From debian package

A debian package repository is available at:

deb http://deb.kalysto.org no-dist kal-alpha

you should include this repository to your apt system and then:

apt-get update && apt-get install kal-shlib-common

What are dependencies for this package ?

You will need to install:

kal-shlib-core

before using this package. Note that if you choose the debian package installation, dependencies will be installed automatically.

What do this package contains ?

Libraries which are files called lib*.sh installed in $prefix/lib/shlib/

The debian package version will install directly to this location (knowing that prefix is /usr)

What these libraries provide ?

I'm sorry, but this README should answer such question but I didn't have time to answer it. The source code is quite readable. Enjoy ;)