Frodo45127
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2 months ago You sure you had the correct repos enabled? Qt is available in pretty much any distro's repo. Not even for development you need to install it manually on linux. And regarding kde, you don't need the whole thing. RPFM only uses a few kde components (like ktexteditor), which btw, when installing should pull qt as dependencies. Also keep in mind the executable I provide is built for arch. If you need it for another distro you may need to rebuild it against that distro's libs.
In windows the download has everything because that's how windows programs work. Ship with everything and you end up with a folder with a ton of files that are duplicated across the system.
And regarding doing the same on linux, there's no plan to do so, at least on my part. If someone wants to do a flatpak with everything included, they're free to do it, but for now I only plan to maintain the arch executable.
jpw1991
You've got a fantastic tool here and I mean no disrespect or anything like that. I just wanna voice my unfortunate experience with the native Linux build.
I run Ubuntu 22.04 and it's just not easy or nice to get the dependencies sorted for running this natively. First, there seems to be no way to install the qt stuff via apt so I had to use Qt's online installer which required an account and a gigantic download (3 or 4gb of stuff) and after I'd done that, it wanted more stuff (some KDE thing) and at that point I decided it's easier to just emulate.
Emulating it, it works in 3 seconds and I don't have to have Qt accounts and KDE stuff and all this crap clogging up my disk.
Maybe you can consider creating some kind of all-in-one solution for Linux to get around this? I notice the windows version ships with all the required DLLs and things.