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Snap out of it (lemmy.zip)
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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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[–] 80 points 2 years ago (6 children)

There is no software that is not in AUR. I use arch, BTW.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But yeah, sometimes I just compile from source, if needed.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My software, QuickDAV, is not in the AUR. It’s open source, and I release it only as an AppImage, because I am lazy.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I guess we should have added the word “notable”

    I’m terribly sorry, you left the door wide open ;)

    I’m curious, what makes AppImage a good choice for the lazy developer? Is it easier to create?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Ouch. xD

    It’s super easy to create. And you distribute it on your own, so it’s basically like an installer exe on Windows. In my mind it’s one step above only offering source code.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I’m curious, what makes AppImage a good choice for the lazy developer? Is it easier to create?

    The appimage is basically just git clone -> make -> make install DESTDIR=/path/to/AppDir -> wget appimagecreationtool and finally appimagecreationtool /path/to/AppDir and that's it you have your appimage.

    appimagecreationtool being several tools that can create the appimage from an AppDir, like linuxdeploy, linuxdeploqt, go-appimage, etc

    And that on itself isn't complex either, it if basically running ldd on the binary, then copy those libraries into the AppDir and finally run patchelf to patch the paths in the binaries and libraries, suyu uses a deploy script instead of using those tools, which I've recently forked and began expanding.

    I don't know how easy it is to make a flatpak or snap, but I do know the dev of zen browser hates dealing with the flatpak and iirc right now the flatpak is outdated as result.

    EDIT: Also lite-xl has been making a flatpak for like 2 years and it isn't ready yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Gatekeeping the word "software" here?
    Here's something not in the AUR. Tested on arch

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Clearly we need an Arch version of rule 34 and rule 35

    Rule 34a: If linux software exists, it's in the AUR. No exceptions.

    Rule 35a: If linux software is not in the AUR, it will be made available in the AUR.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I don't intend on pushing that one to the AUR. It's not worth it.
    Maybe I'll make an AppImage at most.

    I don't know any formal requirements for it being on AUR, but I just feel like this one does not fit there.

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