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"Ubuntu" version on Debian?

Discussion in 'Linux' started by syscrusher, Aug 27, 2016.

  1. syscrusher

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    I'm looking at moving from Mac to Linux in a month or two, pending some testing and research. I'm a full-time Linux pro, so Linux itself isn't in question -- it's support of my needed tooling that I need to verify.

    I'm wondering if, as is often the case, the .deb packages for Unity that are nominally "Ubuntu" will also install on modern versions of Debian. I can run Ubuntu if I must, but I really prefer Debian. I'm okay with either Stable or Testing versions of Debian for a workstation (I stick with Stable on servers unless I have a really good reason not to do so).

    Unity team: Please consider supporting Debian in general and not just Ubuntu.
     
    syscrusher, Aug 27, 2016
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  2. Tak

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    The deb package should be ok on debian, provided that you can fulfill the dependencies. (There's nothing special nor ubuntu-specific in there, as far as I know.)
     
    Tak, Aug 29, 2016
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  3. syscrusher

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    Great, thanks!
     
    syscrusher, Aug 30, 2016
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  4. arcooke

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    Has there been any discussion about moving from deb to snap? I know Unity is only supporting Ubuntu, but it would at least allow more distro flexibility than a deb package should someone want to try it.

    I'm on Mint so it doesn't affect me, just curious
     
    arcooke, Aug 31, 2016
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  5. syscrusher

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    By chance, I attended a presentation on Snappy tonight. My impression was that Snappy is a pretty fast-evolving toolset right now. It looks interesting, but it may be a little early for Unity to move that way.
     
    syscrusher, Sep 1, 2016
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  6. UltraParadigm

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    UltraParadigm, Sep 2, 2016
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  7. Tak

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    In the future, we'll probably move to a "bootstrap installer" binary like the other platforms.
     
    Tak, Sep 2, 2016
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  8. theGiallo

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    I have Debian. With 5.1 I had to install mono from here http://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/install/linux/#debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives and it all worked. I have all the repos in my /etc/apt/sources.list, so maybe that helped, i can't tell.
    Also now with 5.5.0b I moved the installation to another HDD and chromium-sandbox had a setuid problem, maybe due to the different mount options (I have no 'nosuid'). To get it to work I 'ln -s' the one from google chrome-unstable.
     
    theGiallo, Sep 2, 2016
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  9. syscrusher

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    My wife has a new high-performance Linux laptop on order, and she's kindly given me permission to use it as a test machine for my Unity tooling before she puts it into daily use. :)
     
    syscrusher, Sep 2, 2016
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