Installing a .deb file in Arch

wirenik · 2008-09-13 05:18:58

A lot of you have probably heard that Amazon.com is offering DRM-free mp3 downloads, which is pretty darn awesome. When I used Ubuntu I installed and used their little client with no problems, but they only have .deb and .rpm versions available.

Here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/am … =dm_dp_amd

How can I install the client on Arch?

jdhore · 2008-09-13 05:57:50

There is a deb2targz package in community/AUR that may be helpful to you

wirenik · 2008-09-13 06:15:24

Ok, I downloaded deb2targz and used it on amazonmp3.deb. I got a directory called usr with bin and share inside.
usr/bin has a file called amazonmp3 inside...ls -l shows that it is executable, but when I execute it returns an error that it can't load shared libraries. usr/share has this inside:
applications, doc, mime, mime-info, mimelnk, pixmaps
Should I copy all the files in usr to the appropriate /usr directories? Make a Pacman package? Or what?
Thanks for your help...

skottish · 2008-09-13 06:21:23

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15566

Or you can run makepkg.

wirenik · 2008-09-13 06:35:07

skottish wrote:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15566

Holy crap. Thanks a million!

I guess that should've been my first step

Last edited by wirenik (2008-09-13 06:37:43)

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#1 2008-09-13 05:18:58

Installing a .deb file in Arch

#2 2008-09-13 05:57:50

Re: Installing a .deb file in Arch

#3 2008-09-13 06:15:24

Re: Installing a .deb file in Arch

#4 2008-09-13 06:21:23

Re: Installing a .deb file in Arch

#5 2008-09-13 06:35:07

Re: Installing a .deb file in Arch

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