Which version is least likely to run into dependency problems on linux?

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pstnta

Hi,

I'm running arch and would like to avoid using the AUR, so I'd like to know which one is most similar to arch between openSUSE, ubuntu 17.10 and Debian 9.3.

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bgstack15

Unfortunately, those are all pretty different and have high chances of dependency problems on Arch Linux. You could just try them. I know that on my Fedora system, the OpenSUSE package sometimes works, if the current Fedora release was older in its release cycle (that is, Fedora 25 was current and it was out for more than about 3 months), because it seems OpenSUSE gets newer versions of libs used by FreeFileSync. Maybe Zenju compiles it for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

It seems to be the standard behavior of Arch Linux users to roll their own packages (which is what the AUR is; you download the set of compilation instructions and compile it on your own system, iirc). Maybe you could roll your own package from source!