How to get a package from another distro installed on my distro?
How to get a package from another distro installed on my distro?
I am trying to install this package on Nobara 38 but it only seems to be available on Deb and Ubuntu https://pkgs.org/download/libpcre3-dev
I've looked around and it seems I need to build the package from source but I cannot find the source or figure out how to build it. I downloaded libpcre3-dev_8.39-15_amd64.deb but im not sure what to do with the file.
I found the PCRE website but it doesn't have a libpcre3-dev https://www.pcre.org/
It might just be easier to do what I need to do in an ubuntu VM. Any advice on how to get this package installed would be appreciated.
Distrobox was made for this exact use case.
are you sure the pcre package in Fedora/Nobara doesn't suit your needs? Debian packagers really likes a lot to complicate packaging for no good reason, splitting the software in different packages like -dev for headers only or somehow getting a "3" in the name despite the software only having pcre and pcre2 with different versions
while other linux packager put the whole software in one single package and call it a day for simplicity sakeI used to use a tool called alien to make .rpm into .deb
I think it works on other package types as well.