eric wroteProvide your .deb package and i will see if i can convert it to PKGBUILD which is the format on Arch
the .deb is here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/extra_packages/fig29-31_1.0.deb
the only *essential* part of which is fig29.py in /usr/bin (if you prefer, /usr/local/bin) ...if its cool to have stuff like the pdf manual in there great, i wont care if you remove it.
but ive already tried it on obarun:
https://i.imgur.com/vUaI6YV.png
and the one thing fig29.py needs to work there is this command:
sed -i 's/env\ python/env\ python2/g' fig29.py
the other files should not need that modification. fig29.py is the version that is most important; the other is optional.
sorry, no one told me about obarun until recently, and it sounded new-- but it does look mature enough.
the fact that i use arch-based stuff less than 10% of the time i use other distro families has got to be part of it.