Installation of an IPK-package
Get the package
Download the IPK-package from a website.
Install Listaller
If Listaller is already installed on your system, you can skip this step. Otherwise you can check if your distributor provides Listaller packages and install them. If not, download the source tarball (Click on “Download” to find instructions) and compile and install it manually. There is also a Ubuntu-PPA with nightly builds of Listaller available.
After this is done, you might want to install a Listaller frontend. If not, you can skip this step. If you want the frontend, get one for your desktop and install it. (On KDE, Apper will do that already if it is compiled with Listaller support, on GNOME, you need Listaller-GNOME) See the “Download” page for details.
Open the package
Open the IPK-package with your PackageKit package installer (Apper or GNOME-PackageKit). If a Listaller frontent is installed, simply double/single-clicking the package file should already launch the right application.
As an alternative, you could also use the PackageKit command-line tool pkcon to install the package:
pkcon install-local <lipackage>.ipk
Install the package
After the package is opened, just follow the instructions on screen to install it.
What's next?
The application is now installed. You shoukld be able to launch it via you application-menu. (KRunner, GNOME-Shell, …) If there have been problems making the setup work for you, please file a bug against Listaller so we can fix it.
If you want to uninstall the software, you can use any PackageKit frontend to remove it, if you installed the application in “shared mode” as superuser. Otherwise, you need a Listaller-tool to remove it, e.g. limanager-gtk on GNOME. Just click uninstall and you're done.
