Does anyone know if there are plans to release ‘Alien’ under Leap 15.4 (as it had been under Leap 15.3)?
According different package databases there was never an official alien package for Leap 15.3. Only private ones on OBS. These private repos are also valid for Leap 15.4. The experimental build from Leap 15.3 (multimedia repo) failed in Leap 15.4.
https://software.opensuse.org/package/alien
I don’t believe that this package will ever land in an official openSUSE repo as the last project activity for alien was in the year 2016! 6 years ago…this project is rotten dead (and bug stricken as can be seen in other linux distributions…).
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So what is the package in question?
You know you can just extract the deb file then extract the data tarball and run in situ as your user…
Consider a flatpak if available?
Thank you. Perhaps I should have put my question more explicitly. Namely, what must I do to run a deb package on Leap 15.4? There are some references to Alien in diverse fora, but if it is as easy as you suggest, then so much the better https://forums.opensuse.org/images/icons/icon7.png
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Yes, I extract (right-click extract) grab the data.tar.gz extract and test to see if it works…