aurch
Sets up aurutils inside a chroot for building Arch Linux AUR packages. (by Cody-Learner)
Conty
Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable (by Kron4ek)
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aurch
Posts with mentions or reviews of aurch.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
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Thought Experiment: Building and Running AUR Packages in Containers
My personal AUR helper builds AUR packages in an nspawn container. Thinking about scripting the automation of running them in dedicated nspawn container as well.
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Recommended AUR Helper
I ended up writing my own AUR helper that sets up aurutils inside an nspawn container. It does prompt for inspecting and/or modifying git cloned files before building. However, it omits other typical AUR helper features like building/updating multiple packages at once. On the other hand, it transparently manages required gpg keys and AUR dependencies. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch
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Pacman Virtual Environment v0.1
I did it using a systemd nspawn container. I made my AUR helper as both an interesting scripting project and a proof of concept for myself. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch
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Bash script to clean pacman and yay cache
Reinventing the wheel has been an great way for me to learn more about shell scripting and Arch packaging in general. ie: https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch
- Clyde - the AUR helper in Bash
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How do I set a package to be installed on my secondary drive ?
I use pacman to work on non default locations in my AUR helper. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch
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Pacman Message: "Checking which packages need to be rebuilt"
I've been using my own AUR helper over the last year without issue. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch
- how does AUR page update to actual version of git packages?
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[Aurutils]What aurutils command line do you use most often or like?
Details: https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch/blob/main/aurch
- Improving a custom repo
Conty
Posts with mentions or reviews of Conty.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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[PSA] If you are having problems running EAC enabled games on Steam, try running Steam through conty
For the glory of mankind he edited his post saying that running Steam through conty (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty) fixed his problem with EAC enabled games.
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Civ6 in a Windows VM?
Have you tried using: Flatpak (use flatseal for other library locations), Conty (use HOME_DIR in case you want to separate it from host's .steam folder), or Distrobox (use Bazzite-Arch image for quick setup)
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Wine 8.10 Released
nah, there is conty to save the day of not dealing with i386
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Gaming in Slackware?
Or go the https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty way
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Portable Arch Linux packed into a single executable
These ideas I'm toying with also is what made me request the non-image option with Conty here (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/issues/77) where u/Kron4ek speedily patched an option to do so (ty!). Though I'm still pondering what I'm trying to do and if it would make sense with Conty.
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Current state of linux application sandboxing. Is it even as secure as Android ?
I'd imagine the sandbox options are bubblewrap presets, though -- you'd probably want to look around conty-start.sh for more details or ask in the GitHub Discussion.
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The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
Have you tried Conty? The best way I could describe it is the combination of distrobox and AppImage. You basically build a single binary (or use the pre-built one the dev made) containing a minimal Arch install and any other packages you listed in the create-arch-bootstrap.sh file.
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Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma
Do note that with Nobara having Fedora base, some stuff might not have a Flatpak/AppImage or RPM for you to install easily unlike on Debian/Ubuntu-based (tho PikaOS is Nobara re-implemented under Ubuntu-base, but I haven't tested it). Distrobox and Conty may help you with that, but if you were fine with Steam Deck's limitation, you should be alright under Fedora-based distro.
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Improved Wine gaming with exeCute
It's why I usually just run Bottles in Conty. nix-unstable also have the latest Bottles builds, though I haven't tested those yet. I don't think the default permissions is a big problem though, just something to note if you store your games outside of areas it has permissions for by default.
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Pacman Virtual Environment v0.1
Conty https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty looks interesting, but also relies on an image, here squashfs. Mentioned in this comment along with some more options: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xq09nf/comment/iqdigoe/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
What are some alternatives?
When comparing aurch and Conty you can also consider the following projects:
aurutils - Helper tools for the AUR.
Wine-Builds - Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)
rebuild-detector - Detects which Arch Linux packages need to be rebuilt
wine-portable-executable - Wine builds packed into portable executables
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
linux_rocksmith - Guides to get Rocksmith 2014 running on Linux
baph - baph - Basic AUR Package Helper
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
aur - A secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR.
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
pacfinder - :artificial_satellite: Pacman repository & package explorer for Arch Linux.
steamtinkerlaunch - Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs [Moved to: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch]