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Snap out of it (lemmy.zip)
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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

cant we just have .deb?

[–] nte@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

On arch?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

If you look at some aur packages, it's probably deb...

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

we got tar.zst

[–] nte@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And windows has .zip? That's not the same...

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

i mean arch linux deb version is tar.zst no joke

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was going be a smart ass and make the "I use Arch joke"... But if you can use .debs on Arch, that's kind of neat.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The issue is with pushing updates. Eget is nice, but it doesn't push updates.