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by galgalesh 2246 days ago
If it runs on 16.04 you could put it in a snap package. I really like it for installing older software. I created a snap package for Scratch For Arduino (S4A), which is a pain to get working natively, but in the snap I can mess with multilib and weird dependencies without it affecting my main install.

I think the advantage of snaps is that you can get easy access to the host system using interfaces. S4A requires access to the USB Serial devices of the host. In snap the snap I just added the `serial` interface but I'm not sure if Docker has an elegant way to do that.