From: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
To: Remco <me@rwv.io>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Run .deb or .rpm packages
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:27:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y24dpmgx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfv2x1sd.fsf@rwv.io> (Remco's message of "Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:46:42 +0100")
Remco <me@rwv.io> writes:
> 2021/12/08 20:10, André A. Gomes:
>
>> From a freedom perspective, what are my options? Running a virtual
>> machine with ubuntu/fedora for this sole purpose?
>
> I've had some success running debian packages from a chroot environment
> on my guix installation. There's a debootstrap package which allows you
> to create a chroot environment.
>
> Something like:
>
> guix shell debootstrap -- debootstrap --arch=amd64 bullseye my-bullseye-install
>
> and then:
>
> mount -t proc proc my-bullseye-install/proc
> mount -t devpts devpts my-bullseye-install/dev/pts
> chroot my-bullseye-install /bin/bash --login
>
> You'll probably need to run all these as root.
Thank you for this valuable tip, Remco.
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-21 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 15:30 Run .deb or .rpm packages André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 16:46 ` Gary Johnson
2021-12-08 19:46 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 20:05 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-12-08 20:10 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 20:46 ` Remco
2021-12-21 23:27 ` André A. Gomes [this message]
2021-12-22 4:13 ` Timmy Douglas
2021-12-10 9:30 ` Hartmut Goebel
2021-12-12 9:24 ` Efraim Flashner
2021-12-12 19:34 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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