Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > There is an office where the standard desktop OS is Manjaro (a > > clone of Arch Linux). There is not much choice actually. > > > > I don't very much like Manjaro's packaging system and its lack of many > > essential packages in binary format. When I need something as simple as > > codesearch or apg or dateutils, it tries to compile them. > > > > Willing to run a Debian instance within Manjaro, what's my best choice? > > > > The easiest thing that comes to mind is installing VirtualBox in > > Manjaro, but are there less resource-intensive and GUI-dependent > > options? Maybe some kind of chroot or container? > > 'systemd-nspawn'. You can use 'debootstrap' to create the Debian chroot, > it was explicitly created to run also on other distributions (it's > written in shell).
Thanks you, I'll definitely look into that. It that it? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-nspawn#Create_a_Debian_or_Ubuntu_environment -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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