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.
- nottheengineer ( @nottheengineer@feddit.de ) 7•11 months ago
Distrobox was made for this exact use case.
- EddyBot ( @EddyBot@feddit.de ) 4•11 months ago
are you sure the pcre package in Fedora/Nobara doesn’t suit your needs? Debian packagers really likes a lot to complicate packaging for no good reason, splitting the software in different packages like -dev for headers only or somehow getting a “3” in the name despite the software only having pcre and pcre2 with different versions
while other linux packager put the whole software in one single package and call it a day for simplicity sake - LoraxEleven ( @LoraxEleven@beehaw.org ) 3•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.