AppImage/Flatpak/Snap/anything please. about yacreader HOT 7 CLOSED

Small update: We're currently re-evaluating this since we are about to take the leap towards Qt6 and this is not widely available on Linux yet. I'm still not a fan of universal packages, but it is a good way to not leave the users behind in this case.

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A Flatpak is now available from Flathub.

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I'm personally not a fan of these bundled "packages" (too much bloat for my taste), but the openSuse Build Service I use to build the YACReader packages does support AppImage targets, so I might look into it. It's not a priority though, so if anyone likes to give this a go - knock yourselves out ;)

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I would also like to add that a flatpak (probably the most ideal target at this point) should theoretically allow you to use the 7zip backend on Linux, as you can guarantee that the proper version of the library will be used.

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I think creating snap packages will be a nice idea since now they are available by default in the ubuntu software center,Although I like flatpak more because they are more secure.

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I would definitely support it, especially flatpak, though appimages are ok too.

Snaps do have a lot of bloat which hurts performance, something to avoid in an application like yacreader.

I've also had a lot of trouble getting it to work from the AUR and given the amount of fragmentation in Linux at the moment, I think universal packages are definitely the future.

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I'm glad to hear it, because as I posted on the forum, I've tried everything to get yacreader to run on manjaro and failed.

As for the question universal packages, I am not sure why people don't like them. Given the number of distributions currently floating around and the low cost of disk space, they make a lot of sense. Not everyone is on Ubuntu/debian, the fedora builds are out of date (they only go up to v31) and the AUR is obviously not the most reliable way to distribute an app.

A universal package solves this once and for all. Anyway, I will look forward to it. Thanks!

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