Installing packages from other repositories

[loyd31]

Hi there,

 

I'm looking for an NAS OS solution to put on my HP Proliant N54L.

 

For now, I've installed Xpenology on it (for simplicity and interface), but I quicly faced the limits of it, having many issues to install custom services such as jenkins, ruby, rvm, ... and surely others...

The problem is that it is a customized version of linux, and some packages need to be recompiled, and the support of community on Xpenology doesn't seems to be as good as Unraid one.

I wonder if it is possible on Unraid, to install package via apt, aptitude, or any other public and well known repository, in addition to the Unraid plugins of course.

 

My goals is to have a system with some already-made good packages/plugins without spending to much time to install them, and also to have the choice to install some other not available as plugins, if my needs evolve.

 

Thanks for help !

[BRiT]

Hi there,

 

I'm looking for an NAS OS solution to put on my HP Proliant N54L.

 

For now, I've installed Xpenology on it (for simplicity and interface), but I quicly faced the limits of it, having many issues to install custom services such as jenkins, ruby, rvm, ... and surely others...

The problem is that it is a customized version of linux, and some packages need to be recompiled, and the support of community on Xpenology doesn't seems to be as good as Unraid one.

I wonder if it is possible on Unraid, to install package via apt, aptitude, or any other public and well known repository, in addition to the Unraid plugins of course.

 

Not likely considering how primitive the core distro of Slackware is that unraid is based off of; also how there is no active community support behind Slackware. Now if unraid ever switches base OS distro to something with reasonable means of package management and repositories then it might be possible.

 

In the meantime unraid users have had to resort to using VMs or docker containers to be able to do this. Essentially docker provides the ability to run the applications inside of a different distro.

[jonp]

Docker allows apps from any Linux distro to run on unRAID. Many are already available on the docker registry which is one step further than an apt-get repo as you don't pull just the app, but an entire virtual image of what the app looks like when its installed. This actually removes "installing" any apps on our OS and allows you to just "run" them.