Debian Packages

Official packages

Arch is packaged in Debian starting with Sarge (currently Testing).

You can get the latest official package from you favorite Debian mirror.

There are two Arch packages in Debian:

larch: Historical implementation, mostly written in sh.
For backward compatibility only.
tla: Current implementation of Arch by TomLord.

Debian stable

Backports of Debian packages are available at Debian backports so you may wish to check there for backports of diff, patch and tla. Or instead of downloading the packages individually, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable tla

Perform an apt-get update followed by apt-get install tla tla-doc and you will get tla, diff and patch and any other package tla depends on.

Not sure why this is mentioned but you can use the patch package from backports.org also:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian patch

Where is the documentation?

Previously the tutorial was not included because it was believed its licence prevented that, however the tutorial is now licenced under the GNU GPL, the tutorial is included in the tla-doc package. Also available via the backports listed above.

Daily builds

As appropriate the official Debian packages lag somewhat behind the latest developments. If you want to be on the bleeding edge of revision control, you can use the tla nightly builds. Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://people.debian.org/~asuffield/daily/tla/lord/ ./
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~asuffield/daily/tla/lord/ ./

This will also allow you to get the tutorial, in the tla-doc package.