My dumbass without DistroBox:
$ ar x package.deb
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My dumbass without DistroBox:
$ ar x package.deb
Where distrobox
And again... Distrobox is your friend. Me, I like an immutable OS (kinoite) but I still want the AUR…
distrobox-create --name arch --image archlinux:latest
distrobox enter arch
install yay as normal
yay -S vscodium
distrobox-export --app vscodium
yay exa
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/exa
exit [back to kinoite]
exa [works]
vscodium [works, has icon in application launcher]
Try it, you might like it !
Ah, a wild deb-file. Let's add it to my frankendebian.
Debtap to the rescue
As someone who’s never used Linux, TIL that software doesn’t work across all flavours of Linux.
su alien yourprogram.deb
So what? You don't know how to unpack .deb?
laughs in docker
FROM debian:bookworm
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y the-deb