> and a well documented way to install third party software I have made a few packages for Debian ARM Linux when I needed them. I wouldn’t call the documentati

> and a well documented way to install third party software I have made a few packages for Debian ARM Linux when I needed them. I wouldn’t call the documentation great, but it’s not too bad either. Same with the infrastructure, the OS support versioning and dependencies, can be configured for custom repositories and to verify signatures… It’s not terribly hard to make them fully working, install/remove/start/stop systemd services, support upgrade/purge/reinstalls, matter of a few shell scripts to write. The command to install a custom package from a local file is this: sudo dpkg -i custom-package_0.11.deb However, this all was for embedded or similar, where I had very good idea about the target OS version and other environmental factors. Not sure how well the approach would work for a desktop Linux.