Installing from .deb files in macOS Catalina

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I tried installing dpkg with brew. When it was done installing, it gave me the following message :-

==> Caveats
This installation of dpkg is not configured to install software, so
commands such as dpkg -i, dpkg --configure will fail.

Since dpkg -i is used to install packages, I need some help to fix this.

Also, are there any other ways to install .deb packages in MacOS? I'm open to using other methods as well

Thanks in advance

Best Answer

As far I know, a .deb file is a packaged software installer for Debian Linux (and its derivatives.)

If you want to install it, you're out of luck. I don't think there is anyway to install .deb packages on OS X.

However, we can unpack a .deb file on Mac OS X without installing it.

If you use Xcode, a utility called ar is installed. You can run the following command:

ar -x path/to/filename.deb

Alternatively, you could use Homebrew to install the dpkg utility which has many more options to work against .deb files.

dpkg -c path/to/filename.deb
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