Re: Packaging Ezra Bible App for Snap and Flatpak users?
P Mosier <[email protected]>
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OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) user here. While fundamentally RPM based, I have both flatpak & snap working on it. Flatpak does work better of the two. Thanks, - Paul M On January 20, 2024 6:20:16 PM EST, Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM CET, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: >> > It appears that the Ezra Bible App can only be installed using >> > upstream packages for a select group of popular Linux distributions >> > currently. It would be handy for users to be able to install it by >> > using widely available repositories such as the Snap Store and >> > Flathub. I'm fairly skilled at software packaging for distros (though >> > I haven't done Snap or Flatpak before - I'm interested in learning how >> > though) and am thinking about trying to make Snap and Flatpak packages >> > for Ezra Bible App. >> >> Given that Snap really works only on Ubuntu (AFAIK, certainly it >> does work neither with Fedora nor with openSUSE), then I would >> hugely prefer Flatpak. > >No clue about openSUSE, but I know Snap works on Debian and I thought >for sure it worked on Fedora (though of course you'd have to install >snapd first, whereas it's preinstalled on Ubuntu). But still, I do >intend on doing both Snap and Flatpak - each has a user base that the >other one doesn't. I'll go ahead and do the Flatpak first since I now >know someone wants a Flatpak for it :) > >Thanks for letting me know, and God bless. > >> Best, >> >> Matěj >> >> -- >> http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, @[email protected] >> GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 >> >> All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet >> room alone. >> -- Blaise Pascal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >_______________________________________________ >sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page