debian_bridge

Caution!

Author is not using non-debian distro anymore and will not support this project in near future. Be free to create a PRs or Fork the project at all.

CLI tool to automatize creation and running an applications with debian using docker.

debian_bridge 1.0.0
victor <[email protected]>

USAGE:
    debian_bridge [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information
    -v               Set the level of verbosity

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config <FILE>    Set a custom config file

SUBCOMMANDS:
    create    Create new docker build for existed package
    help      Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    list      Show installed programs
    remove    Remove program
    run       Run installed program
    test      Test compatibility and feature access

Installation

• Install Cargo with

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.cargo/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

• Install debian_bridge with cargo install --git https://github.com/22116/debian_bridge (You might need gcc compiler to be installed. On solus you can get it by sudo eopkg it -c system.devel command)
• Run debian_bridge

Responsibilities

• Building a docker image based on input .deb files
• Creation a .desktop entries
• Automate running of created containers

Prerequirements

• Docker ^1.11 with no sudo access

Example

Tested on Solus 3 OS (Budgie with X11 WM) with rocketchat_2.15.3.deb

Check if your system has a support of features

$ debian_bridge test
System settings: 

	Docker version  ===> 1.40
	Window manager  ===> X11
	Sound driver    ===> PulseAudio

Available features: 

	Notification    ===> available
	Home persistent ===> available
	Timezone        ===> available
	Display         ===> available
	Devices         ===> available
	Sound           ===> available

Creating an application

$ debian_bridge create -dshnti --dependencies 'libasound2' --command 'rocketchat-desktop' ~/Downloads/rocketchat_2.15.3_amd64.deb

Fine, rocketchat application created with a shared display, sound, notifications, timezone, devices and home directory. All required dependencies for rocketchat were automatically installed. Additional libs like libasound2 which are not specified in .deb package can be added with dependencies argument.
By default package name will be used as a command, but it's not a case with a rocketchat, so command name (rocketchat-desktop) was additionaly passed.
To automatically create a .desktop entry in $HOME/Desktop add icon-desktop default or icon-desktop <path> to the command

Listing

$ debian_bridge list
Available programs list: rocketchat

As you can see, created program has a default package name by default.

Running

$ debian_bridge run rocketchat

Removing

$ debian_bridge remove rocketchat