Installing Edge browser on Archlinux / Manjaro / Archlabs (No AUR)
This video shows how you can install a debian package on Arch Linux or Arch Linux based OS. Here we are going to try with the new shiny edge browser (dev) for Linux which was released 5 days ago.
✔ From 1:22, the video was cut for a second for some unknown reason. The command is `exo-desktop-item-edit msedge.desktop`. The command is shown again on 2:09.
✔ 4:19 entry to /bin/ not a binary file. It's actually a regular shell script.
✔ I have actually configured edge on Linux before, and I asked it to use Google. Otherwise, the default search engine is Bing!
✔ To add incognito window option from the menu, the desktop entry should be:
```
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Edge
GenericName=Edge Browser Dev
Comment=Microsoft Edge Browser
Exec=/opt/microsoft/msedge-dev/msedge %u
Icon=/opt/microsoft/msedge-dev/product_logo_48_dev.png
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Keywords=web;browser;internet;
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=/opt/microsoft/msedge-dev/msedge %u
[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=New Incognito Window
Exec=/opt/microsoft/msedge-dev/msedge --inprivate %u
```
✔ Take a look at other files extracted after tar -xvf. It already has desktop entries, licence, man page, and other stuff (take a look at share after `ar x`). You can move those entries to respective folders in / and that is just what dpkg does on Debian. But In this video we created the bare minimum from scratch that will require to run the binary.
✔ You can also install most other debian apps (.deb files) like this unless that depends on apt or dpkg or something debian specific.
‣ Download MS Edge Insider (Dev) from here:
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/...
‣ Music:
• Kasger - Reflections | DnB | NCS - Co...
• Chime - Lifelong | DnB | NCS - Copyri...