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Any chance to get fman as AppImage or via Flatpak? #872

Open luator opened 1 year ago

luator commented 1 year ago

I'd like to try out fman on Ubuntu but are generally hesitant to add third party sources to apt if it can be avoided (as this has caused me trouble more than once in the past). Therefore I was wondering if there is any chance to get an AppImage or Flatpak release.

From your comments on other issues I understood that you prefer the native package manages due to the automatic updates. However, I think additionally having one of the above might be a nice alternative for people like me and also the ones using Linux distributions that are currently not supported. And at least Flatpak also has an update mechanism.

AppImage would have the additional benefit that it is very portable and does not need to be installed (i.e. could also be used on machines where you don't have root permissions).

mherrmann commented 1 year ago

Hi, my stance remains the same. If you care about it deeply, you can very likely get it to work by installing fman in a Docker container and copying the files from /opt/fman/ onto your base system; or in the worst case by running fman from inside Docker and forwarding the GUI. But really - you say you haven't even tried fman. I suggest you do that first (for example in a vm if you are that concerned about adding an apt repo) and then see if it suits your needs. Maybe fman won't even suit your needs, in which case the whole discussion is unnecessary anyways.

luator commented 1 year ago

I actually did try with a container before opening the issue (Apptainer instead of Docker, but I guess that doesn't matter), so I already got an idea of fman :) I ran into issues with opening files, though, as the applications to open the files are of course missing in the container. I now installed it from the apt repo for more proper testing, but I still think a distribution-independent alternative might be nice (also for others).

Of course it is up to you if you deem it worth the effort to set it up and maintain it (of which I have admittedly no idea how big it would be).