> Other than a manual install, are there any alternatives? I am interested
> to hear how others are doing this.

Isolate the application in a trashable environment.
Cue containers.

That's what I did followed answers in the 'snapd in Devuan? Dependency
on systemd' thread.
My host systems barely suffer from native packages' pollution anymore.

Bernard (Beer) Rosset
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