apt support

[eflumerf]

Consider what changes would be necessary (i.e. renaming packagelist) to work with other package managers than RPM.

[marcmengel]

It does generally support "apt" already; there may be some packages that need system package name regexps updated
in the packagelist; like I think these days the "xorg-" parts of the xorg-x11-whatever should be optional...
It does, however, currently think "apt" is only on "ubuntu" systems; that is probably not a complete list ;-), and needs probably at least "debian" and maybe "mint"?

[marcmengel]

I've pushed some commits to main to get apt support running; tested on ubuntu 25.10 There are probably still a few packages that need their system package patterns cleaned up, but they should be rather minor. The main confusions were:

• apt packges are generally smashed to lowercase
• apt packages frequently have, say, fred3, fred4 for fred for multiple versions
• develop pacakges are -dev and not -develop, and lose their digit suffixes above
• shared libraries in /lib/linux-x86_64-gnu/ rather than /lib64 or /usr/lib64
  This probably also needs more system name checks than "ubuntu"; but I don't have setups handy to check what they are.