debtap VS workinglinux

Debtap does this exact thing. Unfortunately stuff like dependencies can't always be directly translated. In this case, debtap will try to pull in some odd libc dependencies that cause jank in my experience.

If there is no official Arch package but official .deb packages are available, you can always use debtap which automatically converts a .deb into a .pkg

Deb packages: https://github.com/helixarch/debtap

My employer wants me to install an antivirus that doesn't seem to be available in pacman or AUR. It's available as a .deb and a .rpm. It looks like it's possible to install either of them; for .deb I've found debtap and and for .rpm there's this article that I haven't read closely.

Have you tried debtap? It converts .deb files into arch packages. I've used it a handful a times to convert packages (haven't tried the ones you mentioned, though).

That's neat. Arch users can use Debtap to convert deb packages into Arch packages.

Did you actually find a deb for anything that is not also available through the AUR? If so, there is debtap. It's really not that hard to write a PKGBUILD, though.

On the other hand, that same hook makes them completely oblivious to the things like the Docker VM or a Lima VM. Moving all my work into one of those required-for-work tools allowed me to achieve better than native performance. Here is an Arch based container that can be used for such a purpose: https://github.com/nairb774/workinglinux - it isn't clean or well documented, but it can be useful for the industrious.