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hello. I'm a bit curious about something. I've been on Arch for a bit now, and I can see why people prefer this over ubuntu. But out of curiousity, since both Arch and Ubuntu are both linux, isn't it possible to port pacman over to ubuntu? Or is Arch that much different from U that it wouldn't work? I ask this because I recently found out that dpkg works on Arch (it's in AUR) and that got me thinking. Not that it would make much of a difference if it's possible, but I can't help but wonder.
Last edited by Japanlinux (2010-06-08 08:45:44)
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pacman would work on Ubuntu, but using two different package managers on a system is bound to lead to trouble. pacman would know nothing about the packages installed by apt and vice-versa
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Yes it's possible. Probably won't ever happen though.
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I tought that i should make a script..
something like:
pacman -Ss for apt-cache search
pacman -S for apt-get install
becouse when i'm on ubuntu system..i't my wife's..i forget that i am on ubuntu and always start writing pacam..
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That's almost a year old thread that you pulled up. Instead of putting it in a script, I believe you should just create aliases in your wife's computer.
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here it is.
#!/bin/bash
#Name: pacman.sh
#This is a pacman script for archlinux users on ubuntu
#Autor: Stjepan Horvat aka schef
#Date: 2011-05-13
USAGE="Usage: Arch Linux like pacman."
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
echo $USAGE
exit
elif [ $# -gt 2 ];then
echo $USAGE
exit
elif [ $1 = -Ss ]; then
apt-cache search $2
elif [ $1 = -S ]; then
apt-get install $2
elif [ $1 = -Sy ]; then
apt-get update
elif [ $1 = -Su ]; then
apt-get upgrade
elif [ $1 = -Syu ]; then
apt-get update && upgrade
else
echo $USAGE
exit
fi
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Now there's also PacApt
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