It's no secret that given Ubuntu 's popularity in the operating system ecosystem, application developers usually release one or two binaries for this distribution, resulting in a huge number of applications available for it.
This is most evident in games, since we all know that Ubuntu was the pioneer in implementing the possibility of including paid games in its Software Center, and well, thanks to all the holy developers we also have Steam.
In Arch Linux we can use the AUR , where we find any amount of software, of any type, but I just found out that it is possible to directly install Debian/Ubuntu packages using DPKG.
What is DPKG?
As you can read in Wikipedia:
The dpkg program is the foundation of the Debian GNU/Linux package management system. It was created by Ian Jackson in 1993. It is used to install, remove, and provide information about .deb packages.
Dpkg is itself a low-level tool; a high-level front end is needed to fetch packages from remote locations or resolve complex package dependency conflicts. Debian provides apt for this task.
Install DPKG on ArchLinux
To install DPKG on Arch Linux, we have to do it directly from the AUR:
$ yaourt -S dpkg
Now to install a Debian binary we just have to execute:
$ sudo dpkg -i paquete_debian.deb
Where is the DPKG problem? That as far as I know, unfortunately this application does not resolve dependencies, so we have to use APT or something similar. In fact, APT can also be installed from AUR:
$ yaourt -S apt
Although, of course, I don't think it works like it does on Debian, and I got an error when compiling it. So, you know, try it and tell me, although most of the applications for other distributions are in AUR 