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How to get a package from another distro installed on my distro? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux4noobs

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I am trying to install this package on Nobara 38 but it only seems to be available on Deb and Ubuntu https://pkgs.org/download/libpcre3-dev

I've looked around and it seems I need to build the package from source but I cannot find the source or figure out how to build it. I downloaded libpcre3-dev_8.39-15_amd64.deb but im not sure what to do with the file.

I found the PCRE website but it doesn't have a libpcre3-dev https://www.pcre.org/

It might just be easier to do what I need to do in an ubuntu VM. Any advice on how to get this package installed would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I used to use a tool called alien to make .rpm into .deb

I think it works on other package types as well.