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ibuild dev tools

General

There are a few tools that provide easy access to features intended for development and testing of instantOS projects. You can install them by going into Settings->instantOS->Development tools.

installing instantOS projects from source

This requires ibuild to be installed. Once that is installed, the usage is

ibuild install packagename

This installs the package packagename from the default branch of the project on GitHub. Just running ibuild install without a second argument gives you a list of all packages that can be built using the tool.
Be sure to never install liveutils on a system that is not a live session

more ibuild trickery

In general, if ibuild is missing an argument it will give you an fzf list of all options available to you.

ibuild help

will give you a short explanation of the basic options