Re: [gentoo-user] Running 3rd-party Ubuntu apps on Gentoo

2018-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 03:48:45 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > 2) Install Ubuntu in a second partition and install the apps there. > Then under Gentoo, mount that partition and run the app binaries > in situ after setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make sure the app finds > the Ubuntu librar

[gentoo-user] Running 3rd-party Ubuntu apps on Gentoo

2018-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
What's a good way to run 3rd party apps packaged for Ubuntu? There are a few third-party binary applications on which I depend. They're usually distributed as .rpm for RedHat and .deb for Ubuntu. AFAICT, Gentoo and Ubuntu library names generally match, while RedHat seems to slightly munge many (