Alien (Fakeroot)

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SabirSaleem90
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I am converting tar.gz to .deb from alien

Alien contains fakeroot instructions also can someone let me know what is fakeroot and how it works because I see it gives root permissions without sudo access so is it safer in trisquel ?.

Magic Banana

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According to 'man fakeroot', fakeroot does not "gives root permissions". It only "runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation".

SabirSaleem90
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Perfect can we convert tar.gz to deb without alien ?

Legimet
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Which tar.gz are you referring to?

SabirSaleem90
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https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/releases/tag/95.0.4638.69-1

here you can see .tar.gz file source code I want to make .deb file myself in deb package from their source code.

Legimet
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That's not what alien is for. Alien is for converting binary packages (not source code) in other distro's formats to .deb packages.

If you want to compile ungoogled-chromium from source, you need to follow the directions here: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/building.md. I have done it before, and I should warn you that it takes a really, really long time. Over a day for me. Hopefully your computer is more powerful than mine.

EDIT: To build a deb package, follow these instructions (at the bottom): https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian/blob/unified/.github/README.md

SabirSaleem90
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Ohk I got your point now.

I found useful resources now for making deb from source code which is something I should do rather than from binary packages.

Thank you for your help I will try soon

JC8
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This sounds like a big waste of time and over-engineered, it would be way faster and more simple to just run Ungoogled Chromium inside Firejail, not a long ago someone here mentioned using Firejail as well.

Legimet
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I'm not sure what the relevance of Firejail is here. I think OP wants to compile ungoogled-chromium from source. I provided a link to the instructions for doing that.

SabirSaleem90
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yes I understand @JC8 provided weird comments obvious if we want to sure binary is complied correct so we do that from source what is wrong in that :D

max 2 Days waste of time but good results which we own complied...

SabirSaleem90
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Installing ungoogled chromium from FlatPak is risky as FlatPak contains non free softwares right ?

Flatpak: Available in the Flathub repo as com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium
GNU Guix: Available as ungoogled-chromium
NixOS/nixpkgs: Available as ungoogled-chromium

in github repo

Legimet
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Installing ungoogled-chromium from Flathub is safe. It is free software. But I was just noting that Flathub has a lot of proprietary software, so if you install anything else from there you should be careful and check the license.