On 03/26 09:22, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:00 AM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Sunday, March 25, 2018, <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> is there a way to download the archive (or how is it called in the > >>> world of Ubuntu ?) of a program, from which I only know the > >>> apt-get and apt-install commands? > >>> And how can I do the same for a developer release of that program > >>> when I additionally know the ppa (whatever that is...?) > >>> > >> > >> I've never had this be easy enough I'd want to do it. Is it possible now? > >> I.e. grabbing all deps wouldn't be necessary if Gentoo's library versions > >> match the .deb's. > >> > > > > This could just be a language barrier issue, but it isn't entirely > > clear to me what the question is, and whether it has been answered. > > > > The original question doesn't seem to have anything to do with Gentoo, > > so I'm not sure why we're talking about "Gentoo's library versions." > > > > If the intent really was to ask how to fetch ubuntu packages for use > > with ubuntu then it would probably make more sense to ask about it on > > an Ubuntu list/forum/etc. > > > > If this is a Gentoo question and the submitter is just unfamiliar with > > Gentoo and is using Ubuntu terminology that is fine, but I think it > > would be helpful to have a bit more clarification, such as what the > > end goal is. Are we asking for tarballs of sources (distfiles)? Are > > we asking for binary packages? Is this a question about generating > > ebuilds for versions not in the main repo? Is this about how to get a > > .deb made for Ubuntu working on Gentoo? > > > > I think everybody is trying to be helpful, but is interpreting the > > question differently. Perhaps the original submitter already got the > > answer they're looking for, which is fine. > > > > Well, yes - I think the question as asked has been answered, but I'm > trying to figure out what he was doing. I did assume he was going to > be using the packages with Gentoo somehow, just based on the mailing > list he used. >
Hi, sorry for my horrific bad English. I will try to explain, what I intended to do, again. Hopefully this time with more success: There is a package, which is "selfcontained". As an example here: Blender, which can easily be downloaded from builder.blender.org as *.bz2 archives, is also "selfcontained" as it includes everything, what it needs to run successfully. Despite the fact, that this way of packaging makes a software quite independant from the layout of the distribution it will be installed on, the maintainer of that package only support Debian/Ubunto and has publishes onlu the commands needed to instruct the package management system of thoses systems to install that software -- as mentioned -- on Debian/Ubuntu-like systems. As I am using Gentoo and wanted that package and didn't found any other source and this package uses qt4 (included), I asked on this mailing list for help, how to get access to the physical package, which I wanted to unpack (low level) and try to get it working somehow. I dont asked on a Debian/Ubuntu mailing list as these are for questions about -- beside other related things -- installing packages on Debian/Ubuntu. I asked on this mailing list, since I wanted to run that Debian/Ubuntu package on a Gentoo system. Cheers Meino
