Yes, it was just a first approximation of 'porting' those debs to snappyland. Next step might be to find and port the postinstall scripts. <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2014 3:13 AM, "Oliver Grawert" <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi, Am Montag, den 15.12.2014, 23:55 +0100 schrieb Alexander Sack: ... > > apt-get download $pkgs > > for pkg in *.deb > > do > > dpkg-deb -x $pkg . > > done > > tar -czvf x.tgz usr etc > > > > 2) transfer x.tgz to the Core system, > > remount / read-write, > > unpack into /, > > this is pretty broken, most/many of teh packages you install have maintainer scripts that dpkg -i would execute to do their initial set up properly. only using dpkg -x will give you a completely different setup to a proper install of the package. you should in any case use dpkg -i above (which might potentially force you to install a few more deps but at least the files in /etc will be proper) ... ciao oli -- snappy-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:snappy-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">snappy-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-devel</a> </blockquote></div>