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With this i don't need to bother with PPA's and Flatpaks except for drivers

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I installed Bedrock Linux on Linux Mint. Bedrock Linux is a meta distro that lets you have access to wide range of packages that are typically mutually exclusive to those distro's. With Bedrock Linux installed i can now install say Arch Linux packages on Linux Mint for example. 8)
Check for more information: https://bedrocklinux.org/

All i did was download Bedrock Linux from here: https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland
Opened Terminal and "sudo sh bedrock-linux-0.7.1-x86_64.sh --hijack". Check: https://bedrocklinux.org/0.7/installati ... tions.html
Rebooted.
Opened terminal and "brl fetch --list" then "sudo brl fetch arch". You can use something other than arch if you want to.
Now i can "sudo pacman -Syu" and "sudo pacman -S krita" for example on Linux Mint terminal without having to rely on PPA's or Flatpaks to get latest versions software's. :mrgreen:


Test it in VirtualBox first if you are interested, on your choice of distro. :)
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Re: With this i don't need to bother with PPA's and Flatpaks except for drivers

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Very interesting - definitely something for a Virtualbox install as you suggest. Have a good read of the FAQ before experimenting.

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Good for you. But expect frequent breakage. :mrgreen:
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Re: With this i don't need to bother with PPA's and Flatpaks except for drivers

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Pjotr wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 7:48 am Good for you. But expect frequent breakage. :mrgreen:
I'm guessing it's a true rolling release. Expect to also learn a lot of things about CLI recovery, very quickly. That's not a bad thing. Probably the best way to REALLY learn an OS is to break it completely and then fix it.

Not being sarcastic here, it's going to be a much better beyond-newbie learning experience than getting a C++ compiler and then pretending you understand it, which is how many do it. I'd probably do it on a spare machine I don't need myself.
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