The Antelope User Community produces open-source Contributed Software that is based on Antelope and designed to be used in conjunction with it. Antelope versions 5.4 and earlier included compiled copies of the contributed code in the main Antelope ISO image. As discussed further in the Release Notes for Antelope 5.5, for Antelope 5.5 and later the contributed code is separately hosted by the Antelope User Community. The contributed code may be installed
The default option to install the contributed code is to approve download and unpacking of the contributed-code tarball when prompted by the main Antelope installation program. This method requires a working internet connection that can connect to the appropriate web-site to download the contributed-code tarball:
If you choose not to install the contributed code during the Antelope installation process, or you do not have an internet connection at the time, you may install later via the install_contrib(1) script. This option also requires an internet connection:
In lieu of running the install_contrib(1) script, you may download and install the relevant files by hand:
% pfecho install_antelope 'contribcode_params{download_site}' 'contribcode_params{filename}' contribcode_params{download_site} https://github.com/antelopeusersgroup/antelope_contrib/releases/download/5.10 contribcode_params{filename} Darwin_x86_contrib.tar.bz2
% wget 'https://github.com/antelopeusersgroup/antelope_contrib/releases/download/5.10/Darwin_x86_contrib.tar.bz2'(Note that the URL will change depending on the platform you're on)
% mv Darwin_x86_contrib.tar.bz2 /opt/antelope % cd /opt/antelope % bunzip2 -c Darwin_x86_contrib.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
If you wish, you may download the contributed-code source and compile it yourself:
Note that if developers have committed changes to the contributed-code repository that are incompatible with the version of Antelope you are running, the affected contributed-code programs may not work. We reiterate that BRTT does not provide support for contributed code, including for compilation problems. For support on compiling and/or using contributed-code programs, please contact the originating author(s) (hopefully listed in the man-pages for the programs/libraries in question), or the Antelope User Community.