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i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 272 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.

This post will surely upset nobody.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 180 points 2 years ago (5 children)

the superior distro

Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When did TempleOS start supporting .deb files?

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[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Btw I use Arch

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[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 130 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.

[–] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would have never guessed an Arch linux user would go by reddit_sux

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

My other fediverse account is reddit_sux@iusearchlinux.fyi just to hammer the point even more.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 79 points 2 years ago

Even worse: the .deb file's dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.

[–] art@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

even those deb files that only run on Ubuntu for some damn reason on my Debiain system.

FUCK i understand now! the software i wanted to install had a .deb but its website said it was for ubuntu 20.04, no wonder it didn't work on a debian container!

i'll try this RIGHT NOW, hope it works!

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[–] satnififu@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Give it 2 days and chances are someone has already published a PKGBUILD in the AUR

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[–] nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ain’t my fault you forgot about dpkg -i ;-)

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I remember alien back in the day.

Edit: holy shit this is still maintained https://wiki.debian.org/Alien

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

holy shit this is still maintained

The struggles of a Linux user

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is why you use glorious Debian.

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[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

stick it into a distrobox container and then package that into a flatpak on the AUR. 😎👍

[–] kelseybcool@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know all the words that aren't nouns in that sentence!

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.

[–] Birchoff@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That's still just mid level. Cool people codes everything from scratch by just looking at some pictures

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[–] skippedtoc@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Only available as Deb file.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

He forgot to compile reading comprehension from source.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/

It's only been around like forever.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I was gonna say "has no one in here heard of alien?". I've rarely ever had to use it... because I use Arch.

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[–] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We don't have this kind of weakness on Arch. Apes together strong. Porting magic language to our world.

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[–] bigdog_00@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Deb files are debian packages, so if you're not on debian you can't install it

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

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