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I'd like to be able to install one particular package (and keep it updated) from Arch: arch-wiki-docs (also here).

I know it is not recommended to to this, but it's basically just data so it should not hurt.

Suppose it can't be done, how can I go about to unpack the downloadable .zst file on Ubuntu?

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In this related question virtually everybody seemed to be opposed to the idea of doing it. So I guess the answer is: dont't.

However, to unpack the .zst file all you need is to install zstd:

apt install zstd

... and unpack it with tar -xf file.tar.zst.

In case of the arch-wiki-docs package, the contents will end up in usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html (relative to your current folder, unless you run as root and cd /).

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  • How will you keep the wiki updated? – DK Bose Jun 27 '20 at 03:09
  • @DKBose so far: semi-manually, that is a cron-job which will look for the AUR meta-data and pull the update when it changes. If you find a better way, please create your own answer. I'd love to learn of a more convenient method. – 0xC0000022L Jun 27 '20 at 19:44