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bug #53595: Mentioning Flathub as another binary distribution

Submitter:  Alexander Wilms <alexanderw>
Submitted:  Mon 09 Apr 2018 07:35:27 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave website Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  siko1056
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.4.0 Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Tue 10 Apr 2018 08:06:54 PM UTC, comment #8: 

Alright, then I feel free to close this item and thanks for the new installation method!

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Tue 10 Apr 2018 07:57:46 PM UTC, comment #7: 


> Do you agree with the following changes?


Yes, sounds good. Thanks.

Alexander Wilms <alexanderw>
Tue 10 Apr 2018 07:55:30 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Yes, I'll just have to update the tarball to include this commit: https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/fbcb1b7e3eb7

Alexander Wilms <alexanderw>
Tue 10 Apr 2018 07:52:28 PM UTC, comment #5: 

When looking at [1], can the "Additional information" be filled, for example which Octave version you get?


[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.octave.Octave

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Tue 10 Apr 2018 07:50:04 PM UTC, comment #4: 
Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Mon 09 Apr 2018 11:16:58 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Yes, I've been using it for some months. It depends on the KDE runtime, but that gets automatically installed.

Alexander Wilms <alexanderw>
Mon 09 Apr 2018 09:34:16 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I have been helping Alexander get the Octave Flatpak packaging working well to align with the upcoming 4.4 release.

The intent of the Flatpak distribution is to allow easy installation of user-facing apps including all of their dependencies without being constrained by what packages or versions of libraries a distribution has. For example, Flatpak will allow a Debian stable user to easily install the latest Octave without needing to mess with backports or pulling in PPAs or third-party APT repos.

My personal hope is that Flatpak will make obsolete a lot of the need for complicated backports, Ubuntu PPAs for LTS users, and so on.

The only thing a user needs is to install the flatpak package from their distribution.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Mon 09 Apr 2018 09:25:15 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Do you use the flathub build yourself?  Means, I want to prevent advertising an installer that does not work easily (compared to the plain distribution installation method) and frustrates first time Octave users.

Flatpack works using Linux only, right? Does it have dependencies that have to be met?

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Mon 09 Apr 2018 07:35:27 PM UTC, original submission:  
Alexander Wilms <alexanderw>

 

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