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I am trying to install this package on Nobara 38 but it only seems to be available on Deb and Ubuntu https://pkgs.org/download/libpcre3-dev

I've looked around and it seems I need to build the package from source but I cannot find the source or figure out how to build it. I downloaded libpcre3-dev_8.39-15_amd64.deb but im not sure what to do with the file.

I found the PCRE website but it doesn't have a libpcre3-dev https://www.pcre.org/

It might just be easier to do what I need to do in an ubuntu VM. Any advice on how to get this package installed would be appreciated.

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[โ€“] nottheengineer@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Distrobox was made for this exact use case.

[โ€“] EddyBot@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

are you sure the pcre package in Fedora/Nobara doesn't suit your needs? Debian packagers really likes a lot to complicate packaging for no good reason, splitting the software in different packages like -dev for headers only or somehow getting a "3" in the name despite the software only having pcre and pcre2 with different versions
while other linux packager put the whole software in one single package and call it a day for simplicity sake