On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 01:11, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Patrick Pritchard" <[email protected]> writes: > > > I’m interested in setting up a private cloud using Synology Drive. > > The desktop installer is an “Ubuntu (deb)” package — is there a way to > > install these in NetBSD? > > NetBSD can run some (most?) Linux binaries, as Ottavio explained. > > I have two suggestions: > > after installing the linux compat packages, chroot into /emul/linux > and then run the dpkg tools. first you might need to install them > because the emulation is suse. > > Look at various linux compat packages in pkgsrc, and figure out how to > turn the synology package into a pkgsrc package with linux binaries. >
Incidentally (I haven't tried this myself but I could), I wonder if, instead of installing all the related compat packages from pkgsrc, one could just untar one of these root filesystems into /emul/linux: https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ For example, the Ubuntu one in this particular case. These are meant for docker, but I use them in a chroot on my Debian laptop and they work alright. (It anybody wants to try them, the ones named "rootfs.tar.xz") -- Ottavio Caruso
