BioArchLinux

Our manuscript has been published

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:57:12 +0000

Our BioArchLinux paper has been online published in Bioinformatics, the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology!

A huge thank you to our community for your continued support, feedback, and involvement. BioArchLinux’s success would not be possible without each and every one of you! We always look forward to your ongoing and more involvement.

Our Packages Search Web Online

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:11:25 +0000

With contribution of sinsong, we now have our own pkg search web, you can find it here.

The frontend service is written in Vue providing web.

The backend service is written in Lua providing API.

API of our repo is also provided. bioarchlinux.org/api/pkglist.json is the list of all pkgs in our repo. bioarchlinux.org/api/${pkgname}.json is every single pkg’s info.

Repology add bioarchlinux

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:17:58 +0000

Today, repology added our repo into their map, can you find it?

Junest image released

Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Today, we first release our weekly junest image, everyone can use it for non-root user on Arch Linux and other non-archlinux distro families.

For using the junest, you can check the README page of the junest project.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BioArchLinux/junest-img/main/biojunest.sh
chmod +x biojunest.sh && ./biojunest.sh

Then enjoy it

sudoj pacman -Syu
sudoj pacman -S foo

Not A Joke: ISO image released

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 07:42:32 +0000

Today, we first release our monthly iso image, everyone can use it just like using archiso, however, the only difference is that you need to replace base with base-bio.

For using the iso, you can check the README page of the iso project.

Again, this iso is not a joke.

BioArchLinux on WSL and Docker lauched

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:03:43 +0000

These days, WSL annd Docker have lauched.

For WSL you can get at wsl folder of repository to access the tar file.

For Docker, you can just docker run -it bioarchlinux/bioarchlinux /bin/bash to use it.

Docker image updates daily and wsl image updates weekly.

Serveral Servers lauched

Sat, 28 May 2022 17:56:42 +0000

Now we have our own mediawiki site, all the items related with bioinformatics is welcomed and registeration is open.

For maintainers, the build status site is lauched, and you can check if the recent package passed or not, also, you can access the full log in this website to check if there is any specific problems.

New packages for BioArchLinux has been compiled

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:52:12 +0000

Now BioArchLinux has the GPG keyring package called bioarchlinux-keyring and we have our mirrorlist package called bioarchlinux-mirrorlist.

Now add repository just need to add our repository information to /etc/pacman.conf and then pacman -Sy && pacman -S bioarchlinux-keyring then you can use our repository.

You can edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bio to use the mirror you want to use.

BioArchLinux change the name of database

Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:47:32 +0000

Now the db name of BioArchLinux has changed o bioarchlinux, please replace [BioArchLinux] with [bioarchlinux] in /etc/pacman.conf

We have mirror now

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 17:07:46 +0000

Thanks go to xTom and Nanjing University, now there are four mirror sites around the world.

pkgs.org includes the status our repository

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 21:26:33 +0000

pkgs.org is a web to show packages from different distributions and repository, now pkgs.org include our repository.

Happy New Year

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year

Hello, everyone, thanks for using BioArchLinux, best wishes for you and BioArchLinux repository and comunity