Add flatpak or appimage as an option for Linux
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Brian Rowe
Snap requires the host computer to run a daemon in order to run applications packaged as "snaps".
It would be simpler for many users to use appimage or flatpak.
Thanks!
Appimage packaging guide: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/index.html
flatpak packaging guide: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/building.html
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J Sherwani (Pop Team)
We now have a .deb package available at https://screen.so/#/download-app/linux and we’re working on adding .rpm support within the next 24 hours. Let us know if this is sufficient. We’ve followed Slack’s lead here, and they have a community-supported flatpak based on the published downloads.
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Miguel Bastos
I think Flatpak is the way to go because you can install from every distro.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
Miguel Bastos: I've now pinned the decision we made on this: we have .deb and .rpm available, as well as an AUR package. If you'd like to request a flatpak, please start a new feature request for it, since this feature request was started back when we had none of the above options (we only had snaps, which we've since removed).
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Rodrigo Kochenburger
Thanks for the updates. I think .deb and .rpm definitely helps a lot of users but unfortunately it does not help people running arch, gentoo or other rolling distributions.
That said, I totally understand the choice and hopefully the community can build around those new packages and provide a cross-distribution option.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
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J Sherwani (Pop Team)
We now have a .deb package available at https://screen.so/#/download-app/linux and we’re working on adding .rpm support within the next 24 hours. Let us know if this is sufficient. We’ve followed Slack’s lead here, and they have a community-supported flatpak based on the published downloads.
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Jakob Holderbaum
J Sherwani (Pop Team): Thank you for being so responsive to this community feedback! :) Having .deb/.rpm is great, I think most distro specific packages could be derived from that. It works great on my Pop!_OS machine!
Mustafa Hashmi (Screen Team)
Hi all,
After some consideration, we’ve decided to start with a .deb package for Debian-based distributions which can be downloaded from https://screen.so/download. This is similar to Slack’s approach towards Linux, and we’d like to follow best practices based on what others have done.
The .deb package can also be used as a starting point for a community-maintained Flatpak (similar to Slack).
Let me know if you have any issues with this approach — we’re open to feedback in case this doesn’t work for a significant number of users.
Mustafa Hashmi (Screen Team)
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I am working on adding support for flatpak packages. We hope to have this ASAP as an option for Linux users alongside snaps. Thanks all for the suggestion!
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David Bell
@mustafa-hashmi-2: Thank you! <3
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Rodrigo Kochenburger
@mustafa-hashmi: I'd like to help testing/using a pre-release version, if available.
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Miguel Bastos
Mustafa Hashmi (Screen Team): Any update on this?
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Evan McLean
Yes, cannot get the snap version working (Arch Linux). Have used Appimage packages before no worries.
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Alex Pearson
I second this. I'd like to try out the desktop app, but I'd prefer that I didn't have to enable systemd + snapd to do so.