Develop Any Software Using Distrobox

If you need to develop some software not preinstalled on the base system (so dependencies are also not pre-installed) and that also does not or cannot be built as a Flatpak, you can build it in a Distrobox container.

Follow the build instructions for the project itself using a Distrobox container for the project’s best-supported Linux distro.

For example, instructions for building KDE software using Distrobox can be found here.

Article contributed by Nate Graham under the CC-BY-4.0 license.