This is a collection of utilities to handle the installation of packages in non-native formats such as RPM and DEB.
Packages are unpacked under /Programs. The contents of /opt, when present,
are flattened under the new program entry and compatibility symlinks are created
at /opt pointing back to the new entry at /Programs.
Note that running packages built for other distributions is a best-effort task.
There are many features that won't work out of the box and that are outside the
scope of ThirdPartyInstallers. For instance, init scripts, tasks files, and
reliance on other distro-specific components may preclude the installed package
from working as expected.
ThirdPartyInstallers should help you to install distro-agnostic packages such
as LibreOffice, self-contained packages, and packages that do have many fancy
dependencies. It will not work with complex packages such as KDE.
If there is a GoboLinux recipe to build a program for which you have an RPM/DEB
file, please use the Compile tool instead of the ThirdPartyInstallers
utilities. We provide zero support for third-party packages.
This package requires Dpkg to decompress DEB files and RPM to handle RPM
files. You can install both binary packages on GoboLinux with InstallPackage
or build them from their sources with the Compile tool.
Installing a single DEB file:
$ ThirdPartyInstaller libfoo-2.1.3_amd64.deb
Merging multiple RPMs under a single entry at /Programs:
$ ThirdPartyInstaller --app-name "LibreOffice" --version-number 5.2.3.3 *.rpm