I know there are ways to install software outside of aptitude on debian/ubuntu, (add repo, or build, or download binary, or possibly flatpak/snap/etc).
But being able to download *.deb files was one of the nicest aspect of using a debian based distros and now I’m seeing more and more projects include all distros except deb files.
Someone correct me but I vaguely recall that distributing debs is no longer recommended by debian itself?
- Am I wrong, and have I only co-incidentally stumbled on projects that don’t distribute debs?
- I am right and this seems like a mis-step, removing one of the most beginner friendly features that helped propagate debian based distros?
Flamesuit on.
Haven’t ever needed them on Arch. Probably never will.
Having built rpms, Deb and pkgbuild; pkgbuild is so much easier
I was scratching my head trying to figure out how I hadn’t run into this problem before but this answers it. Which is to say, I’m green enough to not have realized that just being handed the source code and letting make out of the cage wasn’t the implicit default.