Anyway to install a deb package

alfisya

IBurntMyRice distrobox is available in repo.

banger

Got distrobox installed and installed foxclone on a debian 12 image but it wont start from command line, have successfully exported foxclone to the host menu but it still wont start. If I type foxclone in the CLI it should start right?

Getting the error when I try to execute from within the image ./foxclone
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory
📦[tim@debian12 sbin]$

banger

Think I have found a workaround and that is to install the deb package in a VM of Debian. Can run the VM and verify images from VirtualBox while doing other stuff in Solus. 🙂

banger

Its a shame I couldn't get Distrobox to run Foxclone natively everything looks correct its in the Plasma Menu but doesn't launch. Tried Synaptic as a test, again in the Menu but doesn't launch.

brent

banger there is a 2-4 year old step-by-step process posted by a user once a upon a time here. I don't know if management left it up since it is not a recc'd method. I do remember it vivdly becuase it had more steps than I wanted to do. (I remember looking at the deb package I coveted and thinking 'you're really not worth it" 🙂.

banger

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/8977-end-distrohopping-once-and-for-all-with-distrobox

@brent I dont know if the above is what you are referring to but I tried it in a fresh VM but it didn't work. Same problem as with my main machine just launches from menu and nothing happens. Oh well can always load my Debian 12 VM which works.

brent

banger nah not that one., the one I remember was a "first you do this" then 'second, open this" then "third copy this" type dealio.
It was a deb success tutorial.
Maybe it was exclusive to a particular deb package? I remember devs coming out and saying "we dont condone this"---it was a memorable thread that way.
Maybe 2 yrs old or more? I seem to remember Data Drake as well on that one.

If you haven't found it by now maybe OP deleted their acct and it's all down the rabbit hole. The .deb wasn't worth the work was my only takeaway.

banger

Well progress of sorts. I got the above after entering the debian12 image then changing to /usr/local/sbin directory and running ./foxclone53 or ./foxroot but it is stuck on reading drives and wont go any further.

Axios

banger You must run programs like foxclone from a boot disk to work properly
Cant image a booted drive while booted from it
Not totally sure what you are trying to do?

stocc

banger, I don't know if it's of any help, but I happened to be looking at some documentation for Rescuezilla, which also happens to have a deb package. In that documentation (here: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/wiki/Installing-Rescuezilla-from-the-standalone-deb-package), it highlights a very similar issue (Rescuezilla gets stuck at "Identifying disk drives..."), to which the fix is to add the line 'nbd' to /etc/modules. Maybe that would help in your case tto, though I see you're now using a VM to perform the required functions.

banger

Axios

Trying to verify images without booting an ISO anyway it works from a Debian VM so sorted.

banger

stocc
Thanks for that I have given up on trying to run in a DB container and will use VB VM of a Debian 12 which works well to verify large files. Backups will still be from the ISO.

Installed the Rescuezilla deb on the Deb VM and it works fine. Interesting to note RZ can read Foxclone images as well.