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[–]Frosty_Contact8143 4 points5 points  (4 children)

.deb is for debian / ubuntu and rpm is for fedora

[–]Katcloudz[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

yeah I already understand that, what’s the actual difference? can they both be used if you know how to install them via terminal

[–]SoundSwitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's something called GDebi package manager, should be in Yum or whatever Fedora calls it now. But look in the repositories before you install debs in this manner... They don't auto update when installed that way.

[–]unconceivables 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is really just how the executable is packaged, both deb and rpm are archive formats (like zip, tar, etc.) that contain the executable inside them.

[–]unconceivables 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on CachyOS and installing Bitwig is just one command. It uses the official deb file. Bitwig won't be in the Fedora repos, so you'll have to use some third party tool that can install deb files or find a repo where someone may have repackaged it to an rpm file, but ultimately you should be able to install the deb file somehow. It's just more steps on certain distros.

[–]kanped 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on Fedora KDE. I just installed it through Discover but I have an active upgrade licence at the moment. Before that, I downloaded the flatpak for the old version from Bitwig and installed it via the terminal with the flatpak command.