On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:21:14 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2020-04-26 17:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 18:41 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > >> On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 13:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> It is a way that some people/projects distribute their software. > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage > >> I hope we don't get lumbered with a lot of them. One of the best > >> things about Fedora (and similar Linuxes) was the one-stop way of > >> keeping everything up-to-date (yum update, dnf update, commands, and > >> their GUI tools, etc). > >> > >> Going down the Windows route of having to individually update each > >> application from disparate sources, or each application doing their own > >> check for updates (usually when you start them up, and just want to use > >> them without wasting any time), is something I do not want to go back > >> to. > >> > >> And I'm sure we'd also see applications that don't quite work right on > >> our systems, because it tried to be too universal. > > Agreed. An appimage might be useful as a way to test-drive something, > > but I wouldn't want to be tied to it. > > Well, I think the main target for these images may be people who use linux but don't manage > the system. Not much different from the way some folks download the tar file of firefox and run > it from their own area. > > In the case of the OP's question, there doesn't seem to be an rpm available for Fedora. So, unless > one can be found this would be an alternative. So, I have found that so-called flatpak has this software for fedora. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.meetfranz.Franz What are flatpaks and why are they better or worse than rpm. Separately, there is someone who tried to create a spec file: https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/647#issuecomment-438224187 But the spec file uses yarn. I had no idea as to what that was so I looked into the repos and came up with yarnpkg which would install 138M worth of stuff. Are there alternatives? I will try the rpm route unless the flatpak offers a better approach. Many thanks, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
