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INSTALL DEB PACKAGE ON ARCH LINUX DOWNLOAD INSTALL
INSTALL DEB PACKAGE ON ARCH LINUX DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD

Version (Google says “current” and I couldn’t bother figuring out the actual version number so I went with it).

Name of the program (lowercase, no spaces, etc.).

google-musicmanager-beta_current_x86_64.rpmĪs you can see it’s pretty straight-forward: Pkgdesc="A program necessary to upload audio files to your Google Music library." This is what my PKGBUILD file ended up like: # Maintainer: Anders Mårtensson Here are their own instructions (which contains a lot more information but also takes longer to figure out if all you want to do is convert an RPM package) and here’s a reference for the different variables you can use in a PKGBUILD file. To create an Arch package basically all you need is to create a PKGBUILD file which contains all of the information about the package you’re about to create. That’s why I thought it would be a better idea to create an Arch package out of it. For example you won’t be able to easily uninstall the program, nor will it warn you if you remove any of the dependencies. There are some downsides to this, though.

Copy the files to where they belong in your own file hierarchy.

Run rpmextract.sh and you’ll get a directory structure based on the root (/) in the current directory.

Now create a new folder, move the RPM file to it and go there.

INSTALL DEB PACKAGE ON ARCH LINUX DOWNLOAD INSTALL

Install rpmextract for extracting the RPM and any dependencies the program has (libidn for Google Music Manager for example) with pacman.

INSTALL DEB PACKAGE ON ARCH LINUX DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD

Download the RPM for your architecture (64- or 32-bit).It’s fairly straightforward to install an RPM on Arch: I recently found myself wanting to upload music to Google Music from my computer with Arch Linux but found that they only had RPM and APT (.deb) packages available for download.