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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 16-06-20 11:02 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> 
> What I did for some tools like qdbus (mc falls into the same category I suppose) is to just copy the binaries from
> the deb packages on launchpad into ~/bin/.
> 
> Just to have such small tools around, keeping a whole chroot seems a bit overkill to me. So I was wondering if it
> wouldn't be possible to change dpkg's root to ~ or something so that we could apt-get install some command line
> tools easily without a) requiring read-write mode and b) a full chroot/container.

We're not going back to the 1990s.

If you're willing to unpackage the debs as a simple binary you copy around, could you not just repackage as a click so
others can install the tool?  When snap support comes to the mobile flavour of Ubuntu, then that's an even better choice
.

By the way, we're working on a successor to the Terminal App that should make this much easier to snap/click things
like mc.

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Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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