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Qt based ebook reader
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Easier installation methods #60

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Hi, this reader looks amazing and I would like to try it, but I find it hard to install and can´t get it to run on Ubuntu 18.04. Can you provide more detailed installation instructions especially for the dependencies? Do I have to install them via pip3 or with apt-get? What are the exact commands on how to install the dependencies?

Personal annotation: I personally hate polluting the apt/dpkg package space with python packages. At some point there are conflicts with other packages preprogrammed. I highly encourage you to provide sandboxed installation variants, that can be installed and deinstalled very clean and easy. You will definitly attract and grow the userbase of this reader then!

The easiest would be a snap package or conda-package or at least a conda-env file

Thank you and happy coding ;). Q

BasioMeusPuga commented 6 years ago

I understand what you mean, and I have a flatpak recipe ready. It just doesn't support pdf files yet, and that's why I've been hesitant about putting it out. I'll be looking into the snap package thing soon. If you feel like making a snap recipe, I literally accept every single patch. In the meantime, I guess I'll have to install Ubuntu and see what they've renamed the packages into.

Cheers.