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Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

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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



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Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 06:20 +0200
  Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-02 08:00 +0200
    Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 15:30 +0200
      Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 16:50 +0200
      Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-03 07:50 +0200
        Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-07 14:10 +0200
  Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-06-02 09:20 +0200
    Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 15:30 +0200

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