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rncbc / qtractor

Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
https://qtractor.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Could you please create a flatpak? #199

Open blackoutworm opened 5 years ago

blackoutworm commented 5 years ago

Hi there. Do you think you could create a flatpak for Qtractor? The repo version is way old. And the newer versions depend on so many unavailable beta packages that will completely brick the OS. The AppImage also rely on newer library versions. Flatpak is perfect because all dependencies are packaged together with the app. Please.

rncbc commented 5 years ago

why should the author be responsible for this? may i ask? AppImage's are provided just because it just works on most modern systems ; i'm almost sure that flatpak will be worse of a move just because you can't just have both libJACK and JACK-server isolated in a container and hope it will ever work---it won't--and for that matter, I'd rest my case.

suedwestlicht commented 5 years ago

Compiling your own binary is not too complicated. You need some -dev packages with the header files.

With qt5 installed I can compile and run the most recent Qtractor from Git even on an old Xubuntu 14.04.

pyrotek45 commented 2 years ago

I too would like to see a flatpak of qtractor . Obviously its possable and works rather well for daws (bitwig and lmms are both available as a flatpak now). Another thing is that many audio pluggins are flatpaked as runtime addons. So simply installing them along side flatpak daw, the daw can use these flatpaked vst runtimes just fine. More daws on flatpak would just be a good thing overall!

rncbc commented 2 years ago

feel free to raise a PR with the correct instructions, requirements and whatever spec files are needed; make it into a CI/CD job pipeline on GH Actions here. cheers