On 6/7/24 22:41, gene heskett wrote:
I OTOH, have found AppImages a good way to get uptodate, and keep
uptodate, packages like OpenSCAD, FreeCAD and the miriad 3d slicers,
most of which do a new AppImage in the first week of the month. So the
OpenSCAD I'm running is nearly 4 years newer than the repo version, and
probably 20x faster.
I have found that installing software on Debian by any means other than
official Debian packages is a recipe for disaster.
I sometimes write Perl code that runs as root. I use VirtualBox and do
my development and testing on virtual machines. Oracle provides Debian
packages and integrates with sources.list(5) and apt-get(8). See
"Debian-based Linux distributions":
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
If you installed VirtualBox on your Debian primary workstation, you
could create one Debian VM for each of your engineering/ manufacturing
apps. This would give each app a clean Debian VM for installation,
prevent apps from fighting each other, and prevent apps from modifying
your base Debian installation.
David
