Install .deb in Arch

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It’s just an archive

bsdtar -xf "package_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb" data.tar.xz
tar xf data.tar.xz

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this will give usr directory containing binary in usr/bin/ and other data in usr/share

❯ tree usr
usr
├── bin
│   └── somebinary
└── share
    ├── applications
    │   └── io.github.some.package.desktop
    ├── doc
    │   └── package
    │       └── copyright
    └── icons
        └── hicolor
            └── scalable
                └── apps
                    └── io.github.some.package.svg

10 directories, 4 files

One liner:

bsdtar -O -xf "package.1.0-1_amd64.deb" data.tar.xz | bsdtar -xf -

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Install .deb in Arch