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The Chaotic Pacstall Programs Repository
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Add Pacstall in a GUI software center #5

Open soumyaDghosh opened 2 years ago

soumyaDghosh commented 2 years ago

This is a feature suggestion about adding a support for GUI software centers.

Recently a new and unique GUI software center came up for Ubuntu/Debian called software which is written in flutter. This app until now have only snaps and debs/rpms, but it'll be awesome to have packages from pacstall here. According to one of the devs, this app uses, snapd.dart and packagekit.dart for calling and searching packages, can something similar API be made for Pacstall so that it can also be used here. Please think about this devs.

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saenai255 commented 2 years ago

We're already considering this. It has to wait until the Rust backend has a stable release.

soumyaDghosh commented 2 years ago

The latest ubuntu software is flutter based and they use dart for fetching packages. Like the packagekit.dart and the snapd.dart. Can you guys make something like that? This way packages can be accessed from the official store.

wizard-28 commented 2 years ago

The latest ubuntu software is flutter based and they use dart for fetching packages. Like the packagekit.dart and the snapd.dart. Can you guys make something like that? This way packages can be accessed from the official store.

It's not confirmed yet, but how would you like it if we had a chaotic AUR style package repository that automatically builds the pacstall packages.

The user can add this repository to their APT sources, and install pre-built pacstall packages through apt.

This will also allow for free integration with app stores, as the pacstall packages would be treated as regular deb packages and can be installed as such from there.

soumyaDghosh commented 2 years ago

If that is possible then why not. Obviously that'll be a better option

brainchild0 commented 2 years ago

It's not confirmed yet, but how would you like it if we had a chaotic AUR style package repository that automatically builds the pacstall packages.

Is the idea that a Debian repository would be provided locally by a service that would build any package on demand from an HTTP request?

brainchild0 commented 2 years ago

Would the proposed solutions also be adaptable to other front-ends used in various Ubuntu-based distributions, for example Mint Update from Linux Mint?

Zahrun commented 1 year ago

It's not confirmed yet, but how would you like it if we had a chaotic AUR style package repository that automatically builds the pacstall packages.

Is the idea that a Debian repository would be provided locally by a service that would build any package on demand from an HTTP request?

My understanding of the idea is that all packages in pacstall would be built into deb (actually the github ci already generates the debs for each pr) and all these debs would be accessible in one deb repository that we would just have to add to our apt source list, like any other deb repo. This way, any graphical package manager (muon, synaptic, discover, the mint software center) would handle it perfectly. That would be amazing.

Elsie19 commented 1 year ago

That's what the Chaotic PPR is for, but that's still in the works.

Elsie19 commented 10 months ago

This will never be done in pacstall. so I will transfer this to https://github.com/pacstall/chaotic-PPR

Zahrun commented 7 months ago

What is the status of this ? Depends on other tasks to be done before ? Needs development ? Needs infrastructure ? Needs funding ?

Elsie19 commented 7 months ago

What is the status of this ? Depends on other tasks to be done before ? Needs development ? Needs infrastructure ? Needs funding ?

We need infrastructure and funding yes.

Zahrun commented 7 months ago

The primary building cluster is a node in UFSCars datacenter which is hosted in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.

https://aur.chaotic.cx/ is hosted by a university

Elsie19 commented 3 months ago

We are fairly confident we have the funding now!

soumyaDghosh commented 3 months ago

So, add a ppa, and pacstall packages showing up in the shiny new Ubuntu App Center?

Elsie19 commented 3 months ago

If the Ubuntu app center can support normal apt repos, yes. It is not a PPA however.

Zahrun commented 3 months ago

Congratulations 🥳

soumyaDghosh commented 3 months ago

If the Ubuntu app center can support normal apt repos, yes. It is not a PPA however.

Yes it does. It fetches all the debs

Elsie19 commented 3 months ago

How does it display images and such?

soumyaDghosh commented 3 months ago

Not sure about that, will need to check the packagekit code