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I'm an Arch and Gentoo user, and I've yet to come across anything that only runs on Ubuntu, despite plenty of things only "supporting" Ubuntu. Something might o

by wjoe 11y ago

I'm an Arch and Gentoo user, and I've yet to come across anything that only runs on Ubuntu, despite plenty of things only "supporting" Ubuntu. Something might only be distributed as a deb, or rely on specific package versions which are included in the latest Ubuntu release, but someone always packages them up in the relevant format/repository for every distro. And users of such distros are usually ok with fiddling around a bit too get it working anyway. They even provide a distro agnostic installer. Sure, it would be better if they provided RPMs and a bit more "official support", but it's not practical to promise and support it working on every distro.

baldfat 11y ago
I do feel that if you say you support Linux you do three files. 1) Deb 2) RPM 3) Tarball
- mindcrime 11y ago
  Exactly this. If you provide your Linux oriented project in those three formats, you cover approximately 100% of the meaningful use-cases. Provide source as well, and you definitely cover just about every conceivable scenario.
- digi_owl 11y ago
  In a pinch you could extract a RPM into a sub-dir and attempt to run it from there.
  - baldfat 11y ago
    Alien Deb to RPM works most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software) Though OpenSUSE Build Service is the most under used Linux technology period. Build on it and send out packages to whatever distro you want. https://build.opensuse.org/ https://build.opensuse.org/
    - baldfat 11y ago
      Alien is searching for a maintainer :( posted 7 months ago http://joeyh.name/code/alien/ http://joeyh.name/code/alien/
- yellowapple 11y ago
  Even just the tarball is sufficient. Especially if it's structured so that it can be extracted directly on one's root filesystem (i.e. the Slackware style of package management), it's comparatively trivial for downstream distro maintainers to repackage accordingly using their preferred format.

by wjoe 11y ago

baldfat 11y ago

I do feel that if you say you support Linux you do three files. 1) Deb 2) RPM 3) Tarball

mindcrime 11y ago
Exactly this. If you provide your Linux oriented project in those three formats, you cover approximately 100% of the meaningful use-cases. Provide source as well, and you definitely cover just about every conceivable scenario.
digi_owl 11y ago
In a pinch you could extract a RPM into a sub-dir and attempt to run it from there.
- baldfat 11y ago
  Alien Deb to RPM works most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software) Though OpenSUSE Build Service is the most under used Linux technology period. Build on it and send out packages to whatever distro you want. https://build.opensuse.org/ https://build.opensuse.org/
  - baldfat 11y ago
    Alien is searching for a maintainer :( posted 7 months ago http://joeyh.name/code/alien/ http://joeyh.name/code/alien/
yellowapple 11y ago
Even just the tarball is sufficient. Especially if it's structured so that it can be extracted directly on one's root filesystem (i.e. the Slackware style of package management), it's comparatively trivial for downstream distro maintainers to repackage accordingly using their preferred format.