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Re:Installing Meteor on Arch Linux by kamechan on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @05:18AM (#4067992)
been using arch for a while and have always wondered whether there's a good utility to grab a .deb package and install it (including all the dependencies -- from AUR, when possible)?
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Re:Installing Meteor on Arch Linux by stillinbeta on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @05:51AM (#4068055)
Nine times out of ten I'd say you could probably just install from the AUR. If not I doubt you could do so programatically, because the names might not be the same.
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Re:Installing Meteor on Arch Linux by Toshio on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @05:59AM (#4068072)
Not only are the names not the same, but the way the packages are split differs. For instance, Debian/Ubuntu will give the end-user "somepackage", but the developer needs to also install "somepackage-dev". In Arch, the -dev stuff is included in the end-user package.
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