TazPkg¶

SliTaz GNU/Linux’s package manager.

Documentation:

Note

tazpkg decorates every listing with localized, colorized titles, separators and count footers, with no terminal detection: LC_ALL=C pins the text to English, --output=raw switches the decorations to plain text, and any remaining ANSI sequence is stripped before parsing. Data rows are then matched by their digit-led version column, which no decoration line carries.

Note

No outdated operation: tazpkg up --check requires root and recharges the package lists from the mirror even when only listing, so there is no cleanly read-only upgradable listing.

Home page: https://slitaz.org
Source: meta_package_manager/managers/tazpkg.py

Platforms¶

🐧 Linux (SliTaz GNU/Linux only)

Operations¶

Operation	Supported	Notes
`installed`	✓
`outdated`
`search`	✓	exact and extended search backfilled by `mpm`
`install`	✓
`upgrade`	✓
`upgrade_all`	✓
`remove`	✓
`sync`	✓
`cleanup`	✓

Ecosystem¶

Accepted purl types: pkg:tazpkg

Usage¶

$ mpm --tazpkg installed
$ mpm --tazpkg search "query"
$ mpm --tazpkg upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:tazpkg/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --tazpkg upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-tazpkg, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line¶

CLI names, in lookup order: tazpkg
Arguments forced after each call: --output=raw
Environment forced on each call:
- LC_ALL=C

The version is extracted from the output of awk -F $1=="tazpkg"{print $2} /var/lib/tazpkg/installed.info with:

r"^(?P<version>[\d.]+)$"

Privilege escalation¶

System-wide manager: mpm wraps its privileged operations in sudo out of the box. Instead of letting the tool prompt mid-run, mpm primes the credential cache up-front, with a single branded password prompt at most. Turn escalation off for rootless setups with --no-sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown¶

State of TazPkg’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: ❌ None (SliTaz)

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.

Reference traces¶

Raw native outputs captured in the manager source: the reference mpm’s parsers were written against. If you know TazPkg well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

$ tazpkg list --output=raw
List of all installed packages
================================================================================
busybox                            1.36.0            base-system
nano                               6.2               editors
================================================================================
2 packages installed.