Porteus

I may be a complete idiot, in fact I probably am. I've not got much experience of using Slackware and I'm used to using Ubuntu/Centos etc and package managers for installing software.

I notice that Proteus Kiosk is very slim and there doesn't appear to be a package manager installed. I need to install locally Apache and MySQL servers, how would I do this?

I was going to install the Slackware package manager using Installpkg but it appears installpkg isn't available either. If I can get a package manager onto the system then I should be ok from there but I imagine to get to that point it's out of my realm of understanding, for now.

Eventually I might want to pay for a custom build as that service looks very attractive for the project I'm working on however, for now I want to experiment some more to make sure Kiosk is feasible for what I'm trying to achieve.

I've tried searching the forum and googling for a solution to get me started but I imagine I'm using the wrong terminology so pretty much stuck at the moment.

I current have Porteus Kiosk installed on an mini Intel device and have an SSH connection from my Mac connected and logged in over the LAN as root so can anyone give me a hint as to the next step to get some third party software installed?

Thanks in advance!

Hello ultraflash,

For simple modifications you could use packages from Debian or Slackware and would have to remaster the ISO as per kiosk doc:
https://porteus-kiosk.org/kiosk-customization.html
(add additional module to the ISO)

Unfortunately LAMP is bit complicated (many dependencies) so i doubt you could use packages from 3rd party distro unless its some kind of flatpak carrying all possible deps, startup scripts, firewall rules, etc inside. For LAMP you would have to install Gentoo stable (and this is complicated enough), then compile apache, php, mysql and whatever is needed and convert them into a module(s).

To be honest - much easier is to use a customized build service.

Thanks