Find and Install Packages

Regolith is a Debian-based system. Debian packaging tools can be used to find and install packages.

Find package via the command line

The apt command can be used to query installed or all packages:

apt list --installed <package name> # finds installed packages
apt list <package name> # finds all packages

For example, to list all official Regolith looks that could be installed, run:

$ apt list 'regolith-look-*'
...

Quote patterns such as regolith-look-* so that the shell does not expand them to file names first.

To see which status indicators are installed on your system, run:

apt list --installed 'i3xrocks-*'

The i3xrocks-* status indicators are used by the bar of the X11 session. The bar of the Wayland session uses i3status-rs, whose blocks are configured in a file rather than installed as packages. See Install the Sway Compositor.

Install packages via the command line

To install packages via the command line, again we can us the apt command, but must use sudo to gain the rights necessary for installation:

sudo apt install <package name>

To install the battery status indicator, run:

sudo apt install i3xrocks-battery

New status indicators appear on the bar after regolith-look refresh or the next login, unless you have staged your own i3xrocks configuration. In that case, copy the indicator’s file from /usr/share/i3xrocks/conf.d/ as well.

Find and Install Packages via GUI app

There are a number of apps that can provide a nice window interface on top of the apt packaging system, for example synaptic. Refer to the documentation for the tool of your choice to learn how to search for and install packages.