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Usage

ArchLinux and ArchLinux based distributions

Add the following content to the /etc/pacman.conf

[bioarchlinux]
Server = https://repo.bioarchlinux.org/$arch

You can replace the https://repo.bioarchlinux.org/$arch with any mirror in mirrorlist

install GPG keyring to use bioarchlinux

# pacman-key --recv-keys B1F96021DB62254D
# pacman-key --finger B1F96021DB62254D
# pacman-key --lsign-key B1F96021DB62254D

update the database

# pacman -Syu

install any package

# pacman -S foo

Windows

You can use WSL to use our repo, see here

Docker

You can use docker to use our repo, see here

ISO

You can use ISO image via virtual machine software to use our repo, see here

non-root Linux users

You can use junest BioArchLinux image to use our repo, see here

Citation

Zhang G, Ristola P, Su H, Kumar B, Zhang B, Hu Y, Elliot MG, Drobot V, Zhu J, Staal J, Larralde M, Wang S, Yi Y, Yu H. 2025. BioArchLinux: community-driven fresh reproducible software repository for life science. Bioinformatics: btaf106. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf106

Zhang G, Hu Y, Drobot V, Staal J, Yi Y, Elliot MG. 2022. BioArchLinux: bioinformatics community with Arch Linux. F1000Research 11: 809. https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1119039.1

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Submitting packages

Those wishing to submit 'PKGBUILD' for packages to repo please refer to adding packages document