The Arch Linux repositories are quite extensive, and usually contain up-to-date software. And if something is not available in the repositories, it

Convert Arch Linux PKGBUILDs (Repositories and AUR) To DEB Packages And Install Them On Debian / Ubuntu

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The Arch Linux repositories are quite extensive, and usually contain up-to-date software. And if something is not available in the repositories, it's most probably available in the AUR (ArchLinux User Repository).

What if you could convert the packages from the Arch Linux repositories and AUR into DEB packages, for easy installation using APT on Debian / Ubuntu, and Linux distributions based on these (Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, etc.)?

So you can't use the complete Arch Linux repositories and the AUR to install packages on Debian or Ubuntu just yet. But if you like this, you could help the developer to make this work with many other packages. See this bug report for details.

Until then, you could use something like Archbox in order to install software from Arch Linux on any other Linux distribution, using a chroot environment. Although using Archbox is a lot more tedious than this. In fact, the makedeb developer might have been inspired by Archbox into doing this (just a thought, I didn't see Archbox mentioned in the makedeb documentation).

To install makedeb, mpm and makedeb-db on Debian, Ubuntu and any Linux distribution based on these (Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, etc.), start by adding the repository and updating the software sources:

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