On 6/17/23 08:50, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 17/06/2023 à 14:09, gene heskett a écrit :
On 6/17/23 04:44, didier gaumet wrote:
[...]
- if you want an even more user-friendly and guided approach, use an
app store instead of a package manager: Gnome-software or Apper
I do use several AppImages because of debians glacial speed of
updating software, so OpenSCAD, DigiKam, Cura and several other less
often used apps are years out of date. And bugs don't get fixed,
apparently ever. Like the udev bug where it generates
/dev/serial/by-path, but not /dev/serial/by-id. That is a total show
stopper for people with a 3d printer, and you've known about it for 6
months, but it is not yet fixed in bookworm. Maybe trixie? A 2 line
fix in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-serial.rules that was somehow dropped 6
months+ ago. Is it available in backports for bullseye? Not listed if
"packages" searches for backports.
[...]
Ah, my bad, I did not make myself clear enough:
while Gnome-software or Apper can be labeled app stores, the big
difference between those and commercial app stores (Microsoft, Apple,
Google and son on) is that you may set up several sources for the
applications.
For example; in Debian at this time, you may have these sources of
software in Gnome-software, simultaneously:
- genuine Debian repositories
- Flathub.org (a repository of applications in flatpak format)
- snapcraft.io (a Canonical repository of applications in snap format.
Beware that snap is to be removed from gnome-software features in the
future)
For example,in Gnome-software, right now, you may want to install from
flathub:
- openscad: not available (Bullseye: 2021.01-1, upstream: 2021.01)
When available, 2021-01-1 is about 40x slower that the AppImage I'm
using,obtainable from their home page repo.
- digikam: 8.0.0 (Bullseye: 7.1.0.2, upstream: 8.0.0)
AppImage 7.8.0 work great before reinstall, now won't import from camera
- cura : 5.3.1 (Bullseye: 4.8.4, upstream: 5.3.1)
AppImage 5.4.0-beta.1-linux.AppImage
And another difference of thes app stores, this time compared to package
managers, is that you wont find libraries to install
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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