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There are many things that can stop me from running a program but what distro it is is not one of them.
Seriously, look at what the pkgbuild is doing on Arch and replicate it by hand on your distro of choice. That’s all a pkgbuild is: a simple bash installation script.
have fun translating all the package names!
I use arch btw
Just do whatever the package file says.
simply destroy arch
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distrobox for most cases should be fine…
Joke’s on you. I use Arch BTW
You beat me to it! I also use Arch BTW.
I use Arch BTW.
But also I feel like handing a AUR manager to a person is like giving them a block of C4 and a detonator and saying “good luck”
Stupidly powerful, but you can blow your hand or foot off in a second if you’re not aware
I’m a noob, isn’t every (open source) program aviable for every distribution if you compile it from source? It’s all Linux in the end (i never compiled a program from source, so I don’t know if it’s easy at all)
Usually the only tricky part of compiling from source is tracking down dependencies. The package manager does that for you normally but you’re not using the package manager when compiling from scratch. The actual building (even compiling a kernel) isn’t all that complicated.
Some programs may use libraries or tools specific to a distributions package manager. For example, yay, an AUR helper/pacman wrapper. You would have a very hard time getting it to work on Debian.
Other programs might only include build scripts for a distro specific build system. For example, a program might skip using a Makefile, and do everything in the Arch-specific PKGBUILD.
Generally though, most software uses a standard cross-distro (or even OS) build system. In this case, compiling from source would be an option on any distro. The program might still only be packaged for Arch/NixOS/Gentoo (or others), as it is a very simple process to do so.
You Linux people are funny.
I just download the Windows versions and run them with Wine.
I don’t understand any of this, my windows install is on a 120GB SSD, it’s full now and I can’t update my graphics driver.
Can’t you just use it though distrobox and podman?
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But then your installing it locally. The benefit to containers is they can be deleted.
Also Arch is a unstable mess and requires updates way to frequently
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Arch ships to new of packages for my comfort. This leads to breakages if you don’t read the update notes. I want my system to stay updated automatically and Arch causes to many headaches.
Arch ships
totoo new of packages for my comfort.Sorry to be a grammar nazi but that’s the second time and it annoys some of us. It’s literally a different word with a different meaning!
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That’s fine if you like that kind of thing. However it isn’t for everyone
I’ve been using Arch for over a decade now. On a laptop, desktop, VPS and now it’s also driving Steam OS on the Deck. I had very little problems with it compared to our Ubuntu setups at work that randomly break on updates. Ubuntu is not as bad as it used to be but from my experience (i.e. the way I use it), Arch has been more stable and reliable.
I have also had issues with Ubuntu. I just stick with Debian because I don’t have to touch it for years.
Can you do the same with Arch? Also why do you need newer packages on a server? (I’m taking about the VPS)
it actually is, you just append the distrobox command before it
distrobox enter arch -- yay -Sy appnamedeleted by creator
Any reason not to just use
yay? That’s an alias foryay -Syu, which in and of itself, at least if I understood it correctly, is basically justpacman -Syuand from what I’ve read on the arch wiki-Syis heavily discouraged.But then you stuck with arch. I’ve never had any software that wasn’t a flatpak or in the Debian repos. I use Fedora.
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Really? I honestly have never had that problem. Can you name a few? (I’m completely serious. Don’t take this as sarcasm)
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Same. Yesterday, I found Vulkan drivers for virtual machines (vulkan-virtio) , but it’s packaged only for archlinux. And I gave up trying to build from source yesterday.
TBF I found the first party packaging tools for Debian are very hard to use. I always end up using nFPM or makedeb anyway
…or nixpkgs they have the most packages of any distro (although, I don’t know if they also count all the language specific libs like from pypi, npm, crates, etc.)
Yes, most packages are auto-generated from those. When it comes to manually generated packages AUR should still be #1. Not that I ever missed any packages in nixpkgs…
You can install their package manager on your distro of choice
This is not a problem, I use garuda btw.
me trying to install Davinci
SCREAMING
or only as appimage
