Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.
This post will surely upset nobody.
the superior distro
Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves
I ordered something from someone awhile back and it came with a free flash drive in the shape of a credit card. It had pictures of puppies on it so naturally it's a puppy linux drive now.
This is entirely irrelevant but hopefully someone gets a smile out of it.
I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.
You're right! If a deb file exists then surely it's in the AUR. ABS will repackage it seamlessly for you and then install it directly with Pacman.
Btw I use Arch
I don't care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.
Most of the air is converted deb
I would have never guessed an Arch linux user would go by reddit_sux
As someone who's used debian based distros for 20+ years now, I see no issue with this. ;)
Even worse: the .deb file's dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.
That's where the AUR comes in. Some neckbeard somewhere has already made an AUR package of that.
Then we should appreciate them. Is it fair to call them neckbeards when they toil away at the code coalface for our benefit?
Well ... do they have a neckbeard? /s
Shit half the time it's right in the main repo under Extra.
This is why Arch is the best. Forget the rolling release, it's the sheer size of the repos for me.
Nothing Distrobox can't fix. I can run AUR, RPM, and even those deb files that only run on Ubuntu for some damn reason on my Debiain system.
It's probably already in your default repos too.
Give it 2 days and chances are someone has already published a PKGBUILD in the AUR
Ain’t my fault you forgot about dpkg -i ;-)
I remember alien back in the day.
Edit: holy shit this is still maintained https://wiki.debian.org/Alien
holy shit this is still maintained
The struggles of a Linux user
Thankfully RHEL/Centos/Fedora also get attention thanks to the large corporate influence.
Anything else can just be compiled from scratch, after spending 6 hours trying to figure out what ajfiwn-0-libs-dev is in redhat land, only to find out it was libfiwn-devel all along.
stick it into a distrobox container and then package that into a flatpak on the AUR. 😎👍
I know all the words that aren't nouns in that sentence!
distrobox: Tool for creating one-off containers of a different Linux distro.
container: A virtual OS environment that runs on your computer, but doesn't know that it's running in your computer. It's not the same as a VM or emulator.
flatpak: A tool designed by RedHat for running sandboxed Linux programs in any environment. Flatpak can either refer to the system as a whole (eg: "You need to install flatpak on your machine to use our tools") or an individual program packaged for the flatpak system (eg: "You must download the latest flatpak of Firefox").
AUR: The Arch User Repository. A collection of installation scripts to add software to Arch Linux. These scripts are not owned or maintained by anyone officially affiliated with Arch, so you can find AUR packages for almost anything.
So, the comment becomes: Stick it in a dedicated environment designed to run Debian. Then package it so anyone can run it. Then make it easy for anyone running Arch Linux to install it.
Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.
That's still just mid level. Cool people codes everything from scratch by just looking at some pictures
Only available as Deb file.
He forgot to compile reading comprehension from source.
I don't know what the Linux community's consensus on appimages are, but I wouldn't mind if people made more appimages because, for the few distros I've used, appimages just usually work.
AppImages are definitely convient to use. However the two issues I have with them are that there's no easy way to find them (eg flathub) and they're not automatically integrated with the DE. Requiring a tool that manages AppImages to make it easier.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/
It's only been around like forever.
I was gonna say "has no one in here heard of alien?". I've rarely ever had to use it... because I use Arch.
Debtap is suprisingly easy to use after switching to arch (highly recommend), but i actually love .deb files. Obviously it's a slight risk to the user in the similar way dot EXE's can be for windows , but they really do simplify package management for when you're newer to linux.
We don't have this kind of weakness on Arch. Apes together strong. Porting magic language to our world.
BlendOS Will let you install virtually any package format through containerization, but it shows up just as if it was a native app. It's pretty neat to see and I hope more distros adopt this
Someone explain this to my dumb ass.
Deb files are debian packages, so if you're not on debian you can't install it
I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute
Hint: :q!
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