Is it OK to install Debian or Ubuntu Binaries on Arch Linux?

garchws · 2016-01-20 10:50:39

I'm interested in installing a program called Grenchman on Arch Linux. Unfortuantely, it only has binaries in "Debian Wheezy", "Debian Jessie", and "Fedora". As it says on the website:

Debian Wheezy [ sha1 | sig ]
Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 [ sha1 | sig ]
Fedora (tested on 19) [ sha1 | sig ]
Mac OS X [ sha1 | sig ]

However, I'm running Arch Linux In situations like these, which binary should I grab?

Last edited by garchws (2016-01-20 10:51:45)

tho068 · 2016-01-20 10:55:38

Well, that depends on what libraries the software is compilled against. However, you could just symlink the libraries and it usually works as it should. However, it might not.

metak · 2016-01-20 11:01:19

Try if the old PKGBUILD file from AUR3 still works. (you might have to clean it up a bit) ;-)

WorMzy · 2016-01-20 11:10:30

tho068 wrote:

Well, that depends on what libraries the software is compilled against. However, you could just symlink the libraries and it usually works as it should. However, it might not.

Don't symlink libraries unless you really know what you're doing.

The PKGBUILD that metak has dug up is a poorly written -git package that will compile from source. If you want to use the precompiled .deb/.rpms, ideally you should write a PKGBUILD to extract the contents of the rpm/deb and repackage it for installation with pacman, declaring any dependencies it needs to run in the depends array.

Look at existing PKGBUILDs that do this, such as google-chrome.

Last edited by WorMzy (2016-01-20 11:12:59)

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Is it OK to install Debian or Ubuntu Binaries on Arch Linux?

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