deb-gview in Breadstick
Breadstick runs Debian's own deb-gview package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so deb-gview should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.
Compilers and interpreters run on the device's own ARM64 processor, while containers and virtual machines, which need a kernel of their own, cannot run. More about development tools in Breadstick.
About deb-gview
From the project's description
Old name: dpkg-view. Changed to avoid a conflict with the dpkg- namespace. deb-gview is designed for Debian developers, Debian applicants / sponsorees and the simply curious.
By default, File|Open displays the list of packages in the apt cache: /var/cache/apt/archives/ deb-gview also loads .deb files directly from the command line. This can be used with file managers like Nautilus to open .deb files from a file viewer window. This is not enabled automatically, yet. e.g. to enable this in Nautilus, right click a .deb file, select Open and select "Debian Package Viewer" from the list. Nautilus will now use deb-gview to open .deb files in future.
deb-gview (>= 0.1.0) can also load the .deb files listed in a .changes file, each in a new window. deb-gview (>= 0.1.0) can load a .deb or a .udeb from a local filesystem or a remote repository.
deb-gview will remain a .deb viewer rather than being extended to cope with any .tar.gz
From the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's deb-gview package, under FSFAP.
- Developer
- Debian
- Keywords
- deb, debian, open, view
- Menu categories
- Build tools, Development
Related apps
Sources and licenses
- Name, summary and description: the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's deb-gview package, under FSFAP.
- Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the deb-gview package; the project's license is GPL-3.0-or-later.
- AppStream data: Debian's AMD64 metadata for the deb-gview package. Debian's ARM64 AppStream index has no entry for it, though the package itself is in Debian 13 for ARM64, and the version and sizes shown are the ARM64 package's.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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