I call this installation launch, because it's the first news about how to install Argent Linux
It's been in constant development for a lot of years, I have maintained my packages locally as well as remotely (yes, I have been pushing packages for 10 years), but time has come to export the ISO installation as well, and maintain the ISOs for the rest of real life new developers, programmers and sometimes gamers.
As the dawn of linux gaming development age comes, developers need easy access to tools such as servers and IDEs in a stable and simplistic environment, and as well as rolling & bleeding edge libraries and applications they need to develop their games. And especially a place to test their applications on.
The instalaltion itself is very simple: download the ISO, put it on a Ventoy-based USB stick, and install it via the GUI Installer which you will find when booting.
You have guided installation, or manual partitioning. It is your choice.
But I will detail this on the wiki: https://wiki.argentlinux.io
For the moment users are confronting one single issue: the sound initialization, but steps for that are already described with 3 simple copy-paste commands in: https://wiki.argentlinux.io article Known Issues
So without further due, you have:
https://iso.argentlinux.io/Argent.KDE.BETA.1.5.3-RC1.amd64.iso
First stable (yet RC1) image.
Rest of the images or other servers-oriented archives, containers can be found on https://iso.argentlinux.io
Instructions how to use the EPKG can be found either on the wiki, or by running epkg --help
The epkg package manager mimics the APT or old school YUM simplistic usage.
You can find commands like:
epkg install <package>
epkg remove <package>
epkg update <package>
epkg upgrade <package>
And also Gentoo-specific support for full build-dependency ugprades like:
epkg upgrade-full
It is recommended to do a full package clean from time to time via (equivalent of apt autoremove):
epkg clean
All commands have their respective auto-something, which does not ask for confirmation anymore, such as:
epkg autoclean or epkg autoinstall or epkg autoremove