On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:17:15 -0500 Stanley Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will it be possible to install *.deb's in Devuan? I ask because I > like the Mate desktop, and they offer deb installs at their site > mate-desktop.org. also libreoffice offers deb at their site > www.libreoffice.org. > Hi Stanley! =) Yes, to answer your question, it is possible. I've done so on Debian, which is the same as Devuan presently. However, as a general rule, I would not recommend doing so unless you know how to uninstall it cleanly. The Debian packaging system is designed to be fault tolerant, and accept outside packages - but only to a certain point. Unless you are familiar with how you make corrections manually and understand the security risks, I would not install debs from outside of the official repositories. I'm sorry if that sounds so negative. There are better solutions and if you need to explore one, please email me directly. Have a great day! =) T.J. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
