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Welp, I made a similar thread yesterday regarding Manjaro but I decided to swap to Fedora as my daily driver for stability purposes. Unfortunately since fedora is yet another non Debian distro I need help finding a Syncterm replacement.

I'm my previous thread it was pointed out to me that syncterm has a docker option which I can run on Fedora, but I'd prefer running an app locally if possible.

I tried the Syncterm snap package which boots inside bash, but it doesn't have ANSI support (which is the entire point of using Syncterm) since I assume it's simply piggy backing off of bash- hence the 1.5* review on the snap store.

Looking for options.. if anyone can help a Linux noob I'm all ears. I tried Alien to convert deb to rpm and fell on my face.

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[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you want to go back to something based on debian, consider PopOS!

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like Syncterm is available in the AUR.

Open up Pamac, your graphical package manager, and click on the 3 lines in the top-right corner.

At the bottom of the window, click Third-Party, then enable AUR support.

Search for Syncterm and it should show up now.

Getting packages not in official repositories is significantly easier in Arch-based distros like Manjaro than Debian-based distros or RPM-based distros. It's a major reason why I never use either for personal computing.

Disclaimer: I've been a Manjaro user for 3+ and seeing people recommend Fedora over Manjaro just further cements in my mind that the vast majority of people in this community are not worth listening to.

Do you notice how many people in this thread are recommending you different distros instead of simple instructions on how to get Syncterm to work with Manjaro?

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