![]() ![]() makedeb creates Debian packages installable using APT from Arch Linux PKBUILD files.makedeb, mpm and makedeb-db is a set of tools that allows you to do just that. What if you could convert the packages from the Arch Linux repositories and AUR into DEB packages, for easy installation using APT on Debian / Ubuntu, and Linux distributions based on these (Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, etc.)? And if something is not available in the repositories, it's most probably available in the AUR (ArchLinux User Repository). It’s really amazing to see how many pages that wiki contains and how complete it is.The Arch Linux repositories are quite extensive, and usually contain up-to-date software. And when you eventually face any problem then you discover the strong point of this distro: its documentation. Although it has a quite steep learning curve, once you get familiar with pacman and any of the AUR package managers, it’s quite straight forward to get the packages you need installed and set up. I have to confess: I’ve been hooked by Arch since then on, and decided to move all my desktop environments to Arch + Plasma. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s an easy process or meant to someone with little or none Linux experience: it requires some basic knowledge and experience in Linux systems to know what you’re doing (and not just blindly copying & pasting from the wiki). The first installation took me around a couple hours, going from a blank VM to a fully working Plasma desktop. And of course move to a totally different package system ( pacman). Maybe this was the opportunity to give it a chance and try the (tedious) installation process. Or I could try a rolling distro □ And this is when Arch ringed a bell. What could I do to get the latest version working in my desktop? I could have waited for a while until it would eventually made it into a PPA. And, after digging a little bit about latest events in the KDE / Qt community, finally decided to completely move to Plasma, specifically to latest version available in Ubuntu 17.04, Plasma 5.8.Īnd then I saw a review of Plasma 5.9, introducing some improvements over previous version and decided to test it, so I looked for a PPA to install it in Ubuntu, but there was none available □ Plus, installing KDE always required tons of extra libraries that would be probable be left out in the system after an eventual removal of the desktop environment (and the screenshots and feedback I read for KDE 4 were really discouraging).īut Plasma look & feel was really slick. ![]() Since I switched to Ubuntu back in 2008, I’ve been using Gnome 2 or Unity based desktops and never got too curious about trying anything else. Finally I tried Plasma (former KDE Desktop) and I got impressed. Then I tried XFCE but it was too simple, way to much. I started testing Gnome 3 (which is going to be the official replacement for Unity) but it didn’t make me fall in love with it. ![]() One thing you can take for sure if you take the chance to install Arch: no matter if you success or give up with it, you will learn something new about how a Linux distro works.īut really, why? Well, the announcement of retiring Unity 8 from Ubuntu from version 18.04 was the trigger to explore other desktop options. ![]() Recently I took the decision of leaving my long beloved distro – Ubuntu (sorry, link in spanish) and moving forward into Arch Linux.Īnd why? As JFK said when the USA was aiming to land on the moon, “not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard”, maybe not that much compared to getting to the moon, but definitely more tedious than Ubuntu. ![]()
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