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Hi All
I would like some perspective. I am pretty new to linux although i have played with it for awhile and am going through command line tutorials. I have three devices with linux installed. I have a older laptop with Arch installed. I have a raspberry pi with arch arm loaded. I also have a surface pro with Manjaro installed. Obviously theses are Arch linux based os’s. It was fun to build the system from scratch on the laptop. I am interested in preparing and taking some of the linux exams and getting some certifications. My question is this. I know that Arch uses AUR repository and is a source for lots of packages that a guy may want. I am confused why when you go to a site like virtual box why they don’t list Arch as a option for downloads. I know you can get it from AUR but Virtual box has download for 25 different distros but Arch is not one of them. Is Arch not as popular as i thought. If i am interested in getting certified should i be using another distro as my main distro? |
Arch does things arch's own way. I would advice you not to download something from a site and try to install it on an arch machine. The way to do that is to get the source and make a PKGBUILD for it.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD Then compile it using makepkg, install with pacman -U, then you won't mess up your file tree, have unmet dependencies, or different versions of python all messed up. If you are going to run arch then do things the arch way. It'll save you all kinds of problems. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox Code:
pacman -Si virtualbox |
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And I wouldn't jump to conclusions based solely on what packages one piece of software is offered in. Even a popular piece of software like VirtualBox. |
Thank you for your input
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- with support: RHEL, SUSE, or Ubuntu - without support: CentOS, Debian Stable On a server, RHEL/CentOS and SUSE are much the same, as they both use the Linux Standard Base. On the other hand, I've always used the Arch wiki as a reference tool, although I'd never use it! |
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