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<p>I can only speak for appimages because there are a couple of
programs I <b>HAVE</b> to use that way (FreeCAD and blender as
example if I want the latest versions) and installation for those
are relatively simple compared to my only other alternative -
building from source. Download; Move to destination directory (I
just throw it in /home/user); Set as executable; Create menu entry
(using alacarte); run. Granted, that's more steps than just "sudo
apt install" but... it's a lot less steps (and less headache
debugging) building from source. You do what you gotta do.... <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/15/22 7:22 AM, Bill Gee wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">My opinion:
Virtual application methods like snap, flatpak, appimage, XenApp, App-V et.al. are really nothing more than an answer trying to find a question. In my experience they do not truly relieve the need for system-level libraries on the host operating system. They do not make installation easier. They do not interact well with other applications on the system. They hide user files in unknown places.
As an example I tried to use the snap image of LabPlot a few years ago. The Fedora package for LabPlot is about 22 megabytes in size. The snap was over 200 megabytes. It contained out of date KDE modules. When I tried to save data files to /usr/home, they were nowhere to be found - except from within the LabPlot snap. I saved data files to /usr/home, but Dolphin could not find them. Neither could find. I have no idea where those files went, how to back them up, or how to bring them into other applications like Gwenview. I think they disappeared into a virtual file system somewhere.
LabPlot also could not find any printers. It was, in short, unusable.
I have tried flatpaks of a couple of other applications. In the end they all had problems that made them unusable. They would not show up in the desktop menu, or they complained about wrong version of libraries, or they crashed, or they used HUGE amounts of memory and CPU ...
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On Friday, January 14, 2022 9:27:11 PM CST Derek Tombrello wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I was wondering if appimage might ever be an option? I've been building
from source (as you painfully know :) ) since my distribution doesn't
carry the new releases, but I've heard bad things about snap/flatpaks.
I've never had trouble with appimages, though, and with all the hate
I've seen for snap/flatpak, appimage would be more accepted by the
community in general / at large. Just wonderin' is all :)
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not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was
neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
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On 1/2/22 8:12 PM, Robby Stephenson wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Tellico is now available on flathub
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.tellico">https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.tellico</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.tellico"><https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.tellico></a>
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM Robby Stephenson <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:robby@periapsis.org">robby@periapsis.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:robby@periapsis.org"><mailto:robby@periapsis.org></a>> wrote:
If anyone is interested in testing Tellico as a flatpak, I've
added it to the kdeapps nightly builds. Information on using that
is available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak">https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak"><https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak></a>
It's building from the master branch at the moment. Let me know if
there are any issues.
Robby
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