Good day everyone . I am a musician looking to install the excellent Surge XT synthesizer ( Sorry cant post a link yet )
There is however only a .deb file and I have seen dire warnings , both here and around the web about installing these . I have spent a few days getting this music PC exactly as I want it so I am not inclined to break it now 
I have the AUR working and octopi installed and cannot see Surge XT as yet . Is this likely to be added?
Many thanks
It is available in the community reposistory:
sudo pacman -S surge
It’s in the Manjaro repo. 
pamac install surge
… or…
sudo pacman -S surge
ishaan , Aragorn , thanks for getting back so quickly that is Surge 1.9 which I already have 
Surge XT is the teams latest and greatest completely rebuilt with new features .
Its a bit of a mystery that they didn’t rename it as something else its completely new .
Alastair
serge package was marked out-of-date on 2022-01-19:
Well, what you could do ─ but this is entirely on your hands, and Manjaro will assume no responsibility if it breaks your system ─ is install debtap from the AUR and use that for converting the .deb file into an ALPM-compatible package that you can then install with pacman.
pamac build debtap
I’ve never used it, but I suppose its usage will be something along the lines of…
debtap name-of-package.deb
… and then followed by…
sudo pacman -U name-of-package.tar.zst
Be sure to check out first if the script has any options.
debtap --help
There’s a FAQ on their development site.
Thank you both again . I will wait a bit , its only just been released . I had already looked at debtap and decided that it was very much a dirty “last resort”
Alastair
I have now installed this from octopi . Many thanks for your kind assistance .
What did you install with Octopi?
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