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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 24 for Linux => Topic started by: jolugaju on May 24, 2018, 09:20:25 am

Title: Appimage
Post by: jolugaju on May 24, 2018, 09:20:25 am

Can you create an AppImage file to make it easier to install on all Linux versions?
It would be much easier!
Thanks!

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: bob on May 29, 2018, 03:26:58 pm

Quote from: jolugaju on May 24, 2018, 09:20:25 am

Can you create an AppImage file to make it easier to install on all Linux versions?
It would be much easier!
Thanks!

AppImage doesn't support the level of device access MC needs.

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: jolugaju on May 31, 2018, 05:06:17 am

I didn't know that. It's a pity.
Thanks for the answer.

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: jolugaju on May 31, 2018, 03:22:19 pm

I have checked with people from the AppImage project and this is what they told me ...

"They are definitely not right because AppImage does not restrict what an application can do in any way. After all, an AppImage is really just a self-mounting filesystem that, when executed, runs whatever its developer has put inside it. Maybe they are confusing it with Snappy (by Canonical) or Flatpak (by Red Hat) which come with mandatory sandboxing"

So I ask for you to consider to make someday an AppImage version to install/use your software.
I know I'm only one single customer but I think this is a wonderful solution. This way every user could install/use the program no matter what GNU Linux distribution is using.

Greetings!

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: ranmaru on June 06, 2018, 02:45:29 pm

Great idea. I'm using opensuse and, right now, I can't get mc work on it. Tried the docker that is here in the forum but I'm still can't make it work.
I'm waiting, until an appimage can be there, a script like the fedora one.

Regards

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: bob on June 06, 2018, 06:35:22 pm

I took another quick look at this.

I'm not sure how this is better than the scripts that people have been producing here to create install packaged from the .deb.

You'd still need the system libraries to work with MC one way or the other and there are a LOT of them.

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: Hendrik on June 07, 2018, 03:08:41 am

AppImage can bundle all libraries, so you are independent of the distribution. If thats worth the effort, I don't know.

Title: Re: Appimage
Post by: jolugaju on June 30, 2018, 07:14:47 am

I even would be willing to pay an extra to have the appimage and forget about everything else ... what distribution I'm using now or in the future.
For many people appimage files are the perfect distribution-agnostic software.

Greetings!