Re: Run .deb or .rpm packages

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

Le 8 décembre 2021 14:46:24 GMT-05:00, "André A. 
Gomes"<andremegafone@gmail.com>  a écrit :

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> $ sudo dpkg -i foo-package.deb
> dpkg: error: unable to access the dpkg database directory 
> /gnu/store/902w5i1j38r33l6p871dyhng19zj1phk-dpkg-1.20.9/var/lib/dpkg: Read-only 
> file system
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Any ideas?  I don't know much about .deb or .rpm.

Beside Julien's objections: There might be legitimate use of installing 
.deb or .rpm packages and they might even work. E.g. i one wants to 
install free software provided as a .deb only and at the moment does not 
have the time to create a package definition for it.

So, "dpkg" and "rpm" should at least work :-)

Regarding the error show above: One would need to add 
"--localstatedir=/var" to the config flags (not sure whether this would 
build, then, since most probably "make install" will try to create 
"/var/lib/dpkg" which will fail in the build container.

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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