Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.
This post will surely upset nobody.
the superior distro
Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves
I ordered something from someone awhile back and it came with a free flash drive in the shape of a credit card. It had pictures of puppies on it so naturally it’s a puppy linux drive now.
This is entirely irrelevant but hopefully someone gets a smile out of it.
You’re right! If a deb file exists then surely it’s in the AUR. ABS will repackage it seamlessly for you and then install it directly with Pacman.
is there a way to make it work like a rolling release of sorts? i’d want to use debian, but i don’t want to stay with old packages and wait 2 years for an update
You could use debian testing. It’s a somewhat “rolling-release” model. You will get more up to date packages with more stability too.
You could also use unstable, but I wouldn’t recommend it personally.
Edit: if you really need the most up to date version of some packages, you can pin them to use the unstable repo. This would be a pretty reasonable solution.
You could just go with Debian unstable. I rarely ran into issues while running it in a rolling release style.
Debian testing might also work for you. But it will have a freeze window before each release.
As will have debian unstable. That’s the way it goes, for a few months every few years it slows down until the new stable gets released. Testing is just 10 days after unstable to avoid the biggest bugs.
Never had big problems with debian unstable in 15 years though, as long as you use apt-listbugs
I don’t care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.
As someone who’s used debian based distros for 20+ years now, I see no issue with this. ;)
Even worse: the .deb file’s dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.
That’s where the AUR comes in. Some neckbeard somewhere has already made an AUR package of that.
Then we should appreciate them. Is it fair to call them neckbeards when they toil away at the code coalface for our benefit?
This is literally me calling a marine “Jarhead” or “grunt”. Sorry, military habits never die. I’m showing them love by calling them that, at least that’s what my intentions are.
This is why Arch is the best. Forget the rolling release, it’s the sheer size of the repos for me.
I’ve daily drivered arch for a couple months now. Only a few time have I not searched and found a wiki/forum with the precise error/comment and a solution/fix for the problem.
It’s almost literally insane.
Or the OpenSUSE OBS instance for OpenSUSE, it has repositories with packages for almost anything.
It’s kind of hard to find but you can browse everything at http://software.opensuse.org
