How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?
I try my hand at packaging it for my distro.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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AUR or flatpak.
Honestly the longer I spend daily driving Linux the more I enjoy using flatpaks...
as it should be, nobody likes proprietary vendor-locked formats that get shoved down your throat
Wow a reference to those Mac Vs PC ads from like 15 years ago
They stopped that ad campaign about 15 years ago, and they started it closer to 20 years ago.
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If it's C or C++, I get the source from the project's GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
For programming languages that I don't read, I usually use the AUR.
Also,
- GoG for games
- Xilinx website, for that one time, I got the ISE
- AppImage sometimes
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Appimages are crap too, but at least there is progress with AppMan, repos and that sandboxing solution.
Snaps are only sandboxed with Apparmor and snapd only allows a single repo (which contained malware multiple times) so get the hell off my lawn XD
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There is no software that is not in AUR. I use arch, BTW.
Gatekeeping the word "software" here?
Here's something not in the AUR. Tested on arch
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.
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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Compile from source.
Every February, I emerge qtwebengine to keep us warm.
Lol. It's not the groundhog we should be watching, then?
If you don't compile from source, do you even Linux?
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I’m currently on a atomic distro, so how I get my software from favorite to least favorite is this:
- Flatpak
- Appimage
- Fedora distrobox
- rpm-ostree
os-tree is slow as molasses
As it should be, don't do that.
Doctor, when I do this it hurts...
Also, you're creating a disk image...
It is. I also wonder if there was a model that accomplishes the same thing but with less image copying.
Like, make snapshots every day, but manual installs are not snapshotted but still tracked with ostree. So you can revert them, display them transparently etc.
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