Your choice.but it's one possible way forward. They're just bundled up in a different way. Under the fancy outer wrappings, many distributions use exactly the same items. DEB, RPM, tar.xz, tgz, Flatpaks, Snaps, etc, etc.they're just packaging conventions. It's entirely up to you as to how you decide to approach the problem, of course.but that's the direction I'd be heading in. It's just the way Puppies work, and to the best of my knowledge, no Puppy user has ever yet caught any virii, malware, general 'nasties', etc.) So make use of that fact.and do what YOU want to do with your systems, not what somebody else thinks you ought to do. Linux, far more so than Windows ever did, was originally conceived to put control back in the hands of the user. Tsk, tsk, tsk' What a load of old codswallop. It may not be 'the done thing', and you'll get no end of grief folks who will throw up their hands in horror - 'No, no, no you mustn't EVER do things as the 'root' user. I literally don't care where I source stuff from, if it does what I need.ĩ9 times out of 100, if a piece of software can access everything it needs to run, then it will run. Okay, so you end up on a 'lib-chase' very often.but you'll get there sooner or later. I've 'borrowed' stuff from Debian from Arch from Alt Linux from Fedora.Slackware, too.

And it's all freely available anyway just needs a bit of work to track things down, that's all. deb I often do.I'm not fussy where I obtain necessary components from, so long as I achieve the desired outcome (which is making software functional). You may end up using an RPM package as the 'donor', rather than a. Open your file-manager as the root user, then manually put the items where they need to go. deb package is simply junk to tell the package manager what's going on. Stuff all that other rubbish half of any. It's only the libs/dependencies/modules themselves that you actually need. I'd download them, then unzip 'em to get at the contents. I'd have a scout around on for the items I wanted. As a long-standing Puppy Linux user, I'd just say 'Cobblers' to the whole business of Canonical insisting everything has to be installed with the official package manager (and all that jazz). Y'know, personally - if it was me - I'd approach this from a totally lateral direction.

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