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eget
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
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- gh-dl: download releases from github repo
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Install GitHub release binaries from the CLI interactively
would be good if you added a comparison with https://github.com/zyedidia/eget on your repo
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The culmination of several months of work by dozens of people, Flatpak 1.14.0 is now out!
There used to be a project called ginstall.sh that kept like, a manually maintained database of various projects with static binaries and how to install them. It still exists, but maintenance stopped because its model was also not sustainable. Its use case is better covered by tools like asdf, stew, and if you want to get even simpler, eget.
- An ode to Flatpak (and Fedora Silverblue)
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Asdf Performance
I'm a huge fan of asdf and have been using for years together with direnv! It's great to see how much effort is put into it! I hope more people adopt it so that we don't have to `curl | sh`! One thing I have issues with asdf is security as are no checksums, so, you if I project get compromised you'll get compromised, too. This, of course, is in addition to the third-party asdf plugin getting itself compromised (which is the greater risk). Last, but not least - I wish asdf came with something like eget [0] incorporated so that it can install 99% of the plugins directly and safely! Last, but not least - 99% of the plugins have almost identical code and all that changes is the repo, so, this should be generalized. For example, many years ago I made just one codebase of all HashiCorp plugins [1] and it's been working great!
- get latest github
- Eget: easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub
- Eget: Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub
flathub
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Flathub – The Linux App Store
I also don't believe third parties maintainers packaging software on flathub is a big issue but I'm also not familiar with how other distro repos trust their maintainers. Hopefully more developers maintain their flatpak themselves (or someone they trust) and get their apps verified. If most apps are verified, warning users of unverified apps might be a good idea.
There's ongoing discussion about splitting open source and proprietary apps in to seperate repos [1]. Additionally having seperate repos for verified and unverified apps might make it more obvious where an app comes from in the cli.
But I don't know how seamlessly an app could transition between being in the third party repo and being in the official repo. Having the user quietly stop receiving updates seems like a bad idea, but automatically migrating might not be desirable either.
I also think flatpaks cli interface needs some work. It is functional but far from distro package managers.
Being verified is especially important for critical apps. Recently someone added malicious versions of apps to the snap store [3]. This lead to people getting their cryptocurrency stolen.
[1] https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/691
[2] https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements
[3] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/temporary-suspension-of-automat...
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Bforartists Flatpak, coming soon to Flathub
That means Linux users can now install Bforartists on any Linux distro easily, regardless of glibc version! https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4295
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The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
i assume you dont know how flathub works , theirs little or no QC , done flathub is just get told theirs an update for the package , if yo go look at the github repo pes https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4164 for example , only updates the link to the girt repo , theirs 0 code checked
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Who is behind flathub and rpmfusion really?
It all should be written in pages for contributors, read the docs for fusion, and the docs for flathub.
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Flathub just hit 1 billion total downloads
These are criticisms of the flatpak ecosystem as it stands today. Currently, the Firefox ESR package on flathub seems to be caught in limbo or maybe dead. Mozilla publishes both a snap and a flatpak of Firefox latest, but only a snap of the ESR version. This raises the question of why. Have Mozilla chosen to invest more in snaps than in flatpaks? If so, what's their reasoning? (More users on snaps, making it similar to why they put more investment into Windows than Linux? Something else?) If they haven't invested more into snaps than flatpaks, is this a sign that it's harder to maintain flatpaks (or at least on flathub) than snaps? If that's true, I would hope that flatpak/flathub would be soliciting feedback from Mozilla about it.
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How do I easily create a Flatpak from 2 sources?
Also, while looking into that, I found that this appears to be the most recent effort and this is an earlier effort so it'd probably be better to start from one of those.
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Flathub's index now shows you which apps are verified
Flatpaks builds are made to be reproducible. Everything is done openly and you can check how the apps like for example Spotify where made.
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Flathub in 2023
Two days. You can see the whole process in the pull request if you want to.
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Publishing First Flatpak to Flathub Help
My confusion comes with actually releasing it to flathub. https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission. It looks like I am supposed to fork their repo and create a PR with just the app metadata. So my question is, where does the output build data get hosted that I generated by following the sample tutorial? Do I put that on git somewhere? How does flathub know where it is?
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Is Flathub safe?
At the very least, they should confirm if the app meets the requirements, as mentioned in the submission process.
What are some alternatives?
ZeroTier-GUI - A Linux front-end for ZeroTier
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications
easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
us.zoom.Zoom
pkg2appimage - Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage
flathub - Pull requests for new applications to be added
sc-controller - User-mode driver and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller
udev-rules - udev rules to support Ledger devices on Linux