Gregory's ServerI've, for the first time ever, manually extracted a .deb file(because I hate myself and I was low on self-flagellation) and was successful!
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 @hierarchon from time to time I end up watching a stream where someone uses windows and they've developed all these little tricks to close popups before the notification is done appearing, "would you like to upda-"NO, all sorts of habits to tame the cluster fuck that is the windows ux beast. It's fun to watch. @hierarchon needless to say that someone watching me extracting this deb file would have had a laugh- @ndpi I think so, if you get linux versions of programs, they'll often come as deb or flatpaks.  @RL_Dane not sure what cpio is. It's just two tar files, with content you need to put in your own opt, usr/bin/share/etc.. I've done this gymnastics 10+ at this point, and it's the first time that the application actually opens on the other end. Usually you just end up cleaning up the mess you've made all over the place by hand- Ah, ok. cpio is an archive format like tar, but I've never used it directly. If deb files are just tarballs, then it must be rpm that uses the cpio format. I forget which -- I read it somewhere 20 years ago 😁  @neauoire I had to do this a few times, but my life quality increased 10 fold after I discovered debtap: https://github.com/helixarch/debtap which transforms a dev package into an arch one. |
heck yeah proprietary software and their superior user experience