junest VS lure

Explore the Junest Git project and follow the installation instructions. Activate the environment with junest setup and enable the running-from-host options.

PS: about JuNest (see https://github.com/fsquillace/junest ) this is a lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro. I also suggest to take a look at it.

About JuNest, all the apps installed using it whave always worked well for me. I've also wrote a script and done a pull request (rejected) for a tool that exports the apps to the launcher (as distrobox-export already do) https://github.com/fsquillace/junest/pull/322

JuNest https://github.com/fsquillace/junest looks very complete and good, though I dislike the approach of having to download or build an image. It would be nice to be able to do stuff like clone my filesystem (already ZFS) and branch an environment off that instantly.

I have already done a PR (see here)to the main repository https://github.com/fsquillace/junest but I still get errors in merging this utility during the automatic github-action's test/check. Any idea?

- I have pacman installed through junest. It works for command line programs, did not test for gui software

Have you tried installing JuNest? It will allow you to download, install, and use Arch's precompiled binaries directly (in addition to making it easy to compile, install, and use AUR packages).

As for the rest, I've been testing stuff with distrobox, junest (which is like distrobox, but for arch guest and without the container), and Conty (a lot like Junest but as a single hyper-compressed executable file). Anything requiring an escalation or wanting actual access to root remains an issue, but for the most part, it works well enough.

Understandable, but have you looked into LURE? Haven’t tried myself (I use Arch btw) but this might work better for you. Also check this and this, in case you can setup a server that will just update packages list and download required packages so that your main machine will not struggle that much

Version 0.0.7 of LURE, a distro-agnostic AUR-like build system, has just been released. It's available at https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure/releases/tag/v0.0.7. Github mirror at https://github.com/Arsen6331/lure.

A few months ago, I announced LURE, the AUR alternative for non-Arch distros. As of yesterday, LURE now has a web interface containing all the packages and all the information about them. It is available at https://lure.arsenm.dev/. I've also created a logo for LURE, which is used on that site.

There is a very interesting new project called lure which aims to bring AUR like features to most distros. I've been using it to manage some apps on my home server.

Appimages and LURE

lure - More ambitious in its goals: wants to bring PKGBUILD to more than just APT

To find the less obvious bugs and missing features, and to increase the usefulness of LURE, I'd like to ask anyone who is willing to add packages to the repo at https://github.com/Arsen6331/lure-repo. The documentation for LURE's build scripts is available here: https://github.com/Arsen6331/lure/blob/master/docs/build-scripts.md.

Link: https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure