Using subuser - a quick tutorial¶

Installing a program with subuser¶

You can see a list of installable programs (also referred to as images) by doing:

$ subuser list available

You can install one of these images by adding a subuser for it:

$ subuser subuser add vim vim@default

This adds a new subuser named vim based on the image vim from the default repository.

You can run the subuser with:

$ subuser run vim SomeTextFileToEdit

You can turn a subuser into a “normal” program by running:

$ subuser subuser create-shortcut vim

Now you can launch vim with:

$ vim SomeTextFileToEdit

You can update your subuser programs with:

$ subuser update all

To remove the subuser named vim you can run:

$ subuser subuser remove vim

To remove vim’s home dir:

$ rm -rf ~/.subuser/homes/vim

To clean up old images which have been installed, but no longer are used by any subuser:

$ subuser remove-old-images