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'''Red Pill''' is an Application manager mode that disables certain safety features, and allows access to certain additional settings. It changes the way Application manager behaves, primarily by removing many of the safety locks that prevent users from installing harmful packages, or upgrading or replacing important system packages (which can result in reboot loops). It also hides packages that aren't relevant to users, and shows additional settings to tweak specific behaviors (like whether to cache packages to the internal memory card during installation). | '''Red Pill''' is an Application manager mode that disables certain safety features, and allows access to certain additional settings. It changes the way Application manager behaves, primarily by removing many of the safety locks that prevent users from installing harmful packages, or upgrading or replacing important system packages (which can result in reboot loops). It also hides packages that aren't relevant to users, and shows additional settings to tweak specific behaviors (like whether to cache packages to the internal memory card during installation). | ||
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== Settings == | == Settings == | ||
- | ; Clean apt cache : If activated, the equivalent of "apt-get clean" is performed after every install or update. (This is the | + | ; Clean apt cache : If activated, the equivalent of "apt-get clean" is performed after every install or update. (This is the behavior for blue-pill mode.) |
; Assume net connection : This will not ask for an active IAP before downloading. This is useful if you have a network connection, but the tablet connectivity APIs are not available or don't know about it. | ; Assume net connection : This will not ask for an active IAP before downloading. This is useful if you have a network connection, but the tablet connectivity APIs are not available or don't know about it. | ||
; Break locks : This will break needed locks instead of failing. This is done by default in blue pill mode so that users don't lock themselves out when a crash leaves a stale lock behind. | ; Break locks : This will break needed locks instead of failing. This is done by default in blue pill mode so that users don't lock themselves out when a crash leaves a stale lock behind. | ||
; Show dependencies : This adds another tab to the details dialog with some dependencies from the package. | ; Show dependencies : This adds another tab to the details dialog with some dependencies from the package. | ||
- | ; Show all packages : This will not filter out packages that are not in the "user" section. It will also allow installing packages from any section | + | ; Show all packages : This will not filter out packages that are not in the "user" section. It will also allow installing packages from any section. |
; Show magic system package : This will include the "magic:sys" package in the list of packages. Updating that package will do something similar to "apt-get upgrade". It is not yet fully defined what it will do exactly. This feature might become available in blue-pill mode at one point. | ; Show magic system package : This will include the "magic:sys" package in the list of packages. Updating that package will do something similar to "apt-get upgrade". It is not yet fully defined what it will do exactly. This feature might become available in blue-pill mode at one point. | ||
; Include package details in log : When this setting is active, opening a package details dialog will dump its content into the Log so that you more easily save it. This should be useful when reporting complicated dependency issues. This setting can only be changed in Red Pill mode, but it's effect stays active also in Blue Pill mode. | ; Include package details in log : When this setting is active, opening a package details dialog will dump its content into the Log so that you more easily save it. This should be useful when reporting complicated dependency issues. This setting can only be changed in Red Pill mode, but it's effect stays active also in Blue Pill mode. | ||
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== Activating == | == Activating == | ||
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For the vast majority of people, using Red Pill is inadvisable. Please don't use it unless you know exactly what you are doing. | For the vast majority of people, using Red Pill is inadvisable. Please don't use it unless you know exactly what you are doing. | ||
- | To enable Red Pill mode | + | To enable Red Pill mode, open Application manager and go to "Tools -> Application catalogue", then click "New", type "matrix" into the "Web Address" field, and click "Cancel". Then tap "red" in the dialog to enabled Red Pill mode, or "blue" to keep the Application manager as-is or to disable Red Pill. |
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[[Category:Power users]] | [[Category:Power users]] |
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