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Derek Taylor 🐧

4 years ago

Derek Taylor 🐧
4 years ago

Pacstall Is An "AUR" For Ubuntu

youtube.com/watch?v=MFbO60gBRL…

Pacstall Is An "AUR" For Ubuntu

What if you could run Ubuntu but also had access to a community software repository similar to the AUR? Pacstall attempts to become the "AUR" Ubuntu wishes ...

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Nanook

in reply to Derek Taylor 🐧 4 years ago

Ubuntu has PPAs and therefore no need for an AUR.

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Joshua Lee :gentoo:

in reply to Nanook 4 years ago

would be nice if they didn't suck so much though.

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Nanook

in reply to Joshua Lee :gentoo: 4 years ago

@Joshua Lee :verified: What aspect do you find sucks? PPA's have worked fine for me. One of the reasons I left Fedora in favor of Ubuntu.

in reply to Nanook

ppas depreciate get abandoned, on LTS's some even stop development entire when the first point release comes around.
The big advantage the aur has in comparison is that you not maintaining a package for the air. You just maintaining a text file.

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Nanook

in reply to Joshua Lee :gentoo: 4 years ago

@Joshua Lee :verified: But then everything that has to be installed has to be built, and while that's fine for you or I, not so much for your average end user.

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Joshua Lee :gentoo:

in reply to Nanook 4 years ago

not always. A lot of air PKGBUILDS actually grab existing .Deb or .rpm binaries unexpected them grab dependencies are repacked to the arch tarball and install.

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