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hmatuschek / qdmr

A GUI application for configuring and programming cheap DMR radios under Linux and MacOS X.
https://dm3mat.darc.de/qdmr/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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AppImage build #357

Closed AsciiWolf closed 1 year ago

AsciiWolf commented 1 year ago

Please, consider making an AppImage (or a Flatpak) build of qdmr for Linux users. qdmr is still not available (or is outdated) in many distributions and having to compile it from source is not ideal.

allesand commented 1 year ago

There is a snap available, is that a usable format? According to https://repology.org/project/qdmr/versions most distros are quite up to date, which distro did you find with an outdated version? Snap format has some issues with USB access, though.

AsciiWolf commented 1 year ago

Snap is mostly Ubuntu-specific - basically nobody uses it outside of Ubuntu. Flatpak or AppImage work (if done correctly) on every distro + there are special immutable distributions like Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, Endless OS and others that do not support regular deb/rpm packages.

hmatuschek commented 1 year ago

I would not maintain further distributional packages, I have several people that maintain those for different distributions. Of cause, feel free to adopt it and provide a Flatpak for all to use.