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i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Deb files are debian packages, so if you're not on debian you can't install it

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm on Gentoo for example. I can write an ebuild to automatically download said deb, extract it, install it with the package manager... And if the site has any semblance of organization involved, I can write one ebuild that will always download the version specified in its name, so when there is an update, I can copy the ebuild, change its name to new version and if the dependencies or structure didn't change, it will install just fine without any work.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I am quite comfortable finding my way around ArchLinux, and recently decided to give Gentoo a try. I didn't expect it to be that much harder but all the cflags, emerge, conflicts and updates feels like black magic. I guess that if you know your way around Gentoo, reverse-engineering a deb file is not a real challenge. However I'm assuming that most Linux users would hope for a less involved solution.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (3 children)
    • Incredibly old and likely no longer updated packages
    • the devs are expected to backport their security fixes to these packages, which can create an outrageous amount of work

    I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

    I don't understand why someone would want to be on Debian, what actual advantage does it have.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Stability, slow changes, predictable, strong history, lots of distributions are based on it, the list goes on and on. I don't use it but it's kinda stupid to question it's relevant qualities considering how much it's brought to the Linux community.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lots of distros are based on Ubuntu, does that make Ubuntu an amazing distro?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They are based on Debian then, not Ubuntu. They are just reworked.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it is only available as a .deb, it is probably targeting Ubuntu specifically.

    Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian and uses the same package format. Ubuntu is much more popular though and the packages are not completely compatible.

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