Question about linuxulator and installing .deb

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FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC amd64

The crypto wallet I'd like to install only provides .deb binaries and I was wondering if I could install this with linuxulator? This would be the first time I'v used linuxulator and I dont know if its actually needed but either way was hoping for some direction for how i could run this wallet.

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There are four ways I can think of, all of which should work or have the potential to work well.

1. https://www.freshports.org/archivers/deb2targz
What you need is to get data.tar.XX subfile from the main archive. Extract/copy files by hand to your linux emulation chroot/directory and hope it will run.

2. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/#linuxemu-debootstrap

3. Install a distro like Devuan or MX Linux in VirtualBox or bhyve and run the app via virtualization.

4. Permanently install a Debian based Linux distro like MX Linux or Devuan on a USB stick instead of an HDD/SSD, and use that USB stick for those times when you need Linux compatibility. It doesn't have to be a very fast USB stick. MX Linux boots completely on a super slow USB 2.0 stick in 38 seconds on my hardware. And Devuan even boots up completely in 25 seconds, from a super slow USB 2.0 stick. This way you can easily use FreeBSD as a daily driver, and you immediately have 'perfect Debian compatibility' when you need it.
 
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