{"id":379,"date":"2022-08-17T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/?p=379"},"modified":"2023-12-30T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:01:44","slug":"installing-deb-packages-in-manjaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/blog\/2022\/08\/17\/installing-deb-packages-in-manjaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing .deb packages in Manjaro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You should in general prefer to install from the official Manjaro or AUR repos whenever possible. But in the rare case (<em>cough<\/em> Microsoft Edge <em>cough<\/em>) where this is not possible, here are a sequence of steps you can follow to install a .deb package in Manjaro (and other Arch based distros)<br><br>You need to install <code>yay<\/code>. Once that is done, install <code>debtap<\/code> using <code>yay:<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>yay -S debtap<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before using <code>debtap<\/code> you need to let it build the package database at least once, so run this command once:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>sudo debtap -U<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now convert the deb package to an Arch package:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>debtap  &lt;your deb>.deb<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will create the Arch package. Now install that using your package manager (<code>pacman<\/code> for example):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>sudo pacman -U &lt;your arch package&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This easy, helpful procedure was gathered from this <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.manjaro.org\/t\/how-to-install-deb\/34452\">answer in the Manjaro forum.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should in general prefer to install from the official Manjaro or AUR repos whenever possible. But in the rare case (cough Microsoft Edge cough) where this is not possible, here are a sequence of steps you can follow to install a .deb package in Manjaro (and other Arch based distros) You need to install&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nramkumar.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}