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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 2021 17:00:03 -0800
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>, freebsd@dreamchaser.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: which linux libfuse.so.2?
Message-ID:  <bfa75d24-519d-63cf-912c-fd3756bd8f3b@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <453b81d8-c08d-fae4-598b-16be904789d6@cedro.info>
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On 2/9/21 4:49 PM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> On 09.02.2021 21:56, Pete Wright wrote:
>> there is also work happening on getting debian and ubuntu working 
>> under freebsd - not sure about its availability on 11.4, but i use it 
>> for GUI apps on my workstations:
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails
>>
>> the nice thing about this method, is once you've bootstrapped your 
>> debian environment you can chroot into it and run "apt-get install 
>> blah" and it all pretty much just works.
>
> Wow! I found that interesting and may be a way to run closed source 
> Linux utilities for FPGA from Latice and Xilinx as I have problems 
> running them with GUI on Linuxlator.

yea it's been super handy, for example i've run several linux only GUI's 
this way (slack for example).

>
> Two quick questions:
> 1. Can I use it as non-root? How to chroot for/as normal user?
yes, what i do is set the following in fstab:
/home           /compat/ubuntu/home     nullfs 
rw,late                      0       0

this makes my normal home directory visible in the chroot.  so what I do 
ischroot as root, then "su - pete":
$ sudo chroot /compat/ubuntu /bin/bash
debian-chroot$ su - pete
pete@debian-chroot$

> 2. Did you use all X applications with no problems that way?
>
yes!  that's been my primary use-case actually.  first I allow my local 
X server to accept connections:
$ xhost + localhost

then, after chroot'ing and becoming my normal user I then set my DISPLAY 
environment variable to my freebsd desktop like so:
pete@debian-chroot$ DISPLAY=":0" xterm

this may be a pretty clean way to run Vivado - it's been a while, but 
when I used to run it under CentOS it did all sorts of crummy stuff to 
my system - so I actually had a dedicated workstation just for it.

so with this method you'd just be mucking with the chroot'd 
debian/ubuntu environment, leaving your BSD system relatively clean in 
terms of deps and 3rd party files installed.  heck you can even have 
multiple debian chroots :)

The wiki entry I referred to was pretty up to date, for example it 
covers in depth updating the fstab for proc, sysfs and fdescfs.

Hope this helps,
-pete

-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA




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