How do I install non-gentoo package?

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1923

Hi, ALL,
I need to install time tracker on my Gentoo box.
Unfortunately this tracker does not have an ebuild for Gentoo, but they do provide the packages for Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mint and Fedora.

I did download the package for Ubuntu 12.04 amd64.deb but now I need a way to install it.

How do I perform an installation? I don't want to make VM just because someone didn't make an ebuild for Gentoo...

Thank you.

Hu · Watchman Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 7616

Why not write an ebuild for it yourself? If you want to use their binaries, it will be a very simple ebuild. If you want to rebuild the tracker from its sources, it could be more complex, but you can use the srpm as a guide.

ONEEYEMAN · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 1923

Hu,
Couple of reasons.

1. I am not that familiar with Portage/ebuild writing.
2. I am not sure that the file I took is good source of writing an ebuild.

Thank you.

Otamay · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2011 Posts: 18

You can install layman and check if your package exists in any overlay through a search in internet.

If the ebuild doesn't exists via overlay, you can make your own overlay and make your own ebuild. Just grab a template and customize it, you don't need to have great experience in scripting.

Another way could be extract deb contents, check that all dependencies are resolved, and run the program by yourself.

mahdi1234 · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:16 am Post subject:

There's one very important thing missing - which application?
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