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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by robotmay on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:21AM (#20181316)
I find AppImage files quite annoying, I must admit. I understand that it's annoying packaging for all the different Linux distros, but this doesn't feel like the solution. Maybe renaming them and dumping them in /usr/local/bin would make them integrate better with the OS, but I usually just avoid them.

Flatpak has been quite nice when I've used it, if a bit more awkward to figure out first time.

Snap is fine, but the actual publishing side of it I found quite confusing and arduous when I tried it, so from a developer point-of-view I would probably avoid it (unless it improved a lot in the last year).

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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by simosx on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:32AM (#20181606)
For snap packages, you can use the build servers at https://snapcraft.io/build Point to your github repository with the snapcraft.yaml file and it will create the snap package for you. I think the publishing is very straightforward, and you can get a new package published very quickly.

Of course, you need to work a bit in creating the snapcraft.yaml configuration file in the first place.

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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by app4soft on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:46AM (#20181670)
For AppImage packages, follow AppImageKit instructions.[0]

You can use Travis CI servers (.travis.yml file in your repo on GitHub) with linking linuxdeployqt tool.[1]

For deployment built files back to GitHub as assets also use uploadtool Shell-script.[2]

[0] https://github.com/appimage/AppImageKit

[1] https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt

[2] https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool

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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by loginwithgithub on Friday June 14, 2019 @10:34AM (#20183324)
Why do you find them annoying? I love them. Every application is just one file that I can freely move and copy around, can't be any simpler than that.
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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:29PM (#20185965)
Take a dozen such applications, then have a security vulnerability show up in a core library. Still simple?
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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:40PM (#20187784)
Yes, it just isn't "secure" as far as the security-for-the-security-gods types are concerned.
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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by loginwithgithub on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:44AM (#20188711)
It depends on how often the stuff in the packages gets updated, not on the package format.
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