Xoscope on Arch vs linux mint [SOLVED]

Question

I installed xoscope from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xoscope/) and the application ran well. From title and PKGBUILD file it is pkgver=2.0, pkgrel=4.  Out of curosity I installed the same program in linux mint also. The deb file installed is named xoscope_2.0-3.1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb and it seems to be actually one release older than the one in Arch AUR.  But it has a different (and better) screen format than the one in Arch (different version, not any screen resolution problem). Is it possible to have the that version installed on Arch. I checked the website of the application (http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/) and the latest available for download is version 2.0 only (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xosc … pe-2.0.tgz). I checked in some posts regarding installing deb files in Arch and it does not seem to be a good idea. Any help will be appreciated.
Last edited by rnarch (2012-11-21 17:07:47)

Answer 1

Thanks for a clear explanation.  I read other posts regarding making a PKGBUILD to install deb files and also checked PKGBUILD files of some packages in AUR.  Will following modification of xoscope PKGBUILD work to make a pacman-installable package from the deb file of xoscope?
# Contributor: Vladimir Cerny <[email protected]>
pkgname=xoscope
pkgver=2.0
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="A digital oscilloscope using input from a sound card or EsounD and/or a ProbeScope/osziFOX."
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('gtk2')
install=
source=(xoscope_2.0-3.1ubuntu3_i386.deb)
noextract=()
build() {
ar x xoscope_2.0-3.1ubuntu3_i386.deb
mkdir -p xoscope-temp
tar xf data.tar.gz -C xoscope-temp
cp -r xoscope-temp/* $pkgdir
rm -rf control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian-binary
#OR:
package() {
cd "$srcdir"
for i in *deb; do
ar xv "$i" data.tar.gz
mv data.tar.gz "$i-data.tar.gz"
done
cd "$pkgdir"
for i in "$srcdir"/*-data.tar.gz; do
tar -xzf "$i"
done
I am not sure whether to use build() or package().  Thanks for your help.
Last edited by rnarch (2012-11-19 17:37:43)