Install Deb Package On Arch Linux Arm Commands

How do I install a.deb file via the command line? For command-line run sudo gdebi package.deb> to. Probably better for people moving in from the non-Linux.

Introduction Something that can discourage Arch Linux newcomers is the lack of official packages downloadable with its standard package manager pacman. In this article, I hope to explain why Arch has chosen to work this way, as well as how you can easily acquire just about any package in it. Glossary: • PKGBUILD: Build script for making an Arch package • makepkg: Tool that reads a PKGBUILD and produces an Arch package • AUR: Arch User Repository, collection of community PKGBUILDs • pacman: Standard package management tool for Arch Linux • yaourt: Tool for acquiring and building AUR packages Philosophy After creating a fresh Arch Linux droplet, you have access to three standard repositories with pacman: • core • extra • community The core and extra repositories are maintained by the powers that be. Community is maintained by Arch users, but it might not be what you expect. The Arch maintainers are very strict about what becomes a standard package.

In addition to achieving a vote threshold, an official community package must be adopted by what Arch refers to as a 'Trusted User.' The maintainers do not see a reason for a package to be accessible with the 1st party package manager unless it is likely to be maintained at a 1st party level.

This is as opposed to trying to maintain as many packages as possible, which many other distributions have tried (and often failed) to do. As of this writing, there are only 36 Trusted Users and only 2000+ community packages. However, unlike most other distributions, Arch Linux also keeps an additional community repository where users can play fast and loose. The AUR is transparent and onlyn moderated by the collective, so it encourages organic growth. As of this writing, there are 44,000+ packages in the AUR.

This is in contrast to 10,000+ standard packages. AUR packages are not source packages or binary packages. Instead, they are instructions (PKGBUILDs) for acquiring, building (if necessary), and installing software.

This way of approaching package management was borrowed from FreeBSD Ports. On the source-binary spectrum, a PKGBUILD might use as a source anything from a git repository to a.deb package.

This tool can also preserve curvature when creating new edges.

In addition, there are no licensing restrictions, unlike in some repositories. Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution, so any package you download from the AUR or the standard repositories will be the most up to date one made for Arch, even if you are using an older release of the distro. Since there is only one downloadable version of any given package, packages are easier to fix, and fixes apply for everyone. If an update does break something, downgrading can be as easy as changing the source file version in the PKGBUILD, provided the older source file is still available.