Installation¶

Prebuilt binaries¶

Prebuilt binaries for Linux (x86_64) are available on the GitHub releases page. Download the binary for your architecture, make it executable, and move it somewhere on your PATH:

chmod +x dxon
sudo mv dxon /usr/local/bin/

Verify the installation:

dxon --version

Install from source¶

dXon is written in Rust. You'll need Cargo installed.

git clone https://github.com/P8labs/dxon.git
cd dxon
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/dxon /usr/local/bin/

Install script¶

An install script is in the works. Once available it will let you install dXon with a single command:

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/P8labs/dxon/master/install.sh | sh

This script is not yet published.

Package managers¶

Distribution packages are planned but not yet available. The following may be supported in the future:

AUR (Arch Linux) — dxon or dxon-bin
Other distro packages as interest grows

Updating¶

To update dXon installed from source, pull the latest changes and rebuild:

cd dxon
git pull
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/dxon /usr/local/bin/

For prebuilt binaries, download the latest release and replace the existing binary.

Dependencies¶

dXon relies on system tools to do the actual container work. Depending on which base distributions you want to use, you may need:

Distribution	Required tool
Arch Linux containers	`pacstrap` (from `arch-install-scripts`)
Debian/Ubuntu containers	`debootstrap`
Alpine containers	`wget` or `curl` to fetch the Alpine rootfs

dXon will print a clear error if a required tool is missing when you try to create a container.