| 15 Dec 2018 |
 izzy_ | Nico Alt: cool, thanks! How's the process on the Debian package front? | 13:20:17 |
 Nico Alt | izzy_: No progress there, and honestly I don't think there'll be much with me writing an exam soon. Sorry about that! | 13:24:32 |
| izzy_ | Oh. I was hoping to use the Debian package for testing and screenshots… Never ever played with Flatpaks. | 13:46:13 |
| Nico Alt | izzy_: You can use the Debian package from media.dorfbrunnen.eu for that, it's just that it shouldn't be mentioned as an official installation method in the article. | 13:49:45 |
| Nico Alt | izzy_: Actually, Flatpak is quite easy. You install it by doing something like “apt install flatpak” and then just run “flatpak install org.fdroid.Repomaker”. After that, you can use your GUI to run it like any other program. | 13:51:00 |
| Nico Alt | izzy_: On Arch Linux with Gnome for example, you don't have to prepare anything. You just open Gnome Software (their app store client), search for Repomaker and install it with a single click. | 13:52:00 |
| Nico Alt | That's really a great UX there. Just like in F-Droid, you can have multiple repos, with Flathub and the Arch repo being the default ones. | 13:52:48 |
| izzy_ | Nico Alt: I'm running Linux Mint. Flatpak is preinstalled with that as well. Maybe I give that a try then. Never having used Flatpak I just feel uncomfortable with it: any errors popping up might be mine, or Flatpaks, instead of Repomaker's … | 14:11:41 |
| Nico Alt | izzy_: If you encounter any problems, feel free to ping me and I'll try to help! | 14:14:39 |
| izzy_ | Nico Alt: thanks a lot! With the .deb not becoming officially available "any time soon", that's probably the only way to get the article done ;) | 14:23:17 |
| izzy_ | Is it already available vie Flahub, or do I need to download it somewhere? | 14:23:39 |
| Nico Alt | No, not yet. But chances are good that it could happen today. | 14:25:49 |
| Nico Alt | izzy_: We've made it: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.fdroid.Repomaker | 17:25:41 |
| izzy_ | Nico Alt: \o/ | 18:06:48 |
| izzy_ | OK, I'll see that I can give it a try tomorrow. Is there a way to get completely rid of a flatpak one has installed? | 18:07:29 |
| Nico Alt | izzy_: You can uninstall it with flatpak uninstall org.fdroid.Repomaker and do something like apt autoremove with flatpak uninstall --unneeded.
Specifically for Repomaker, to delete all data you also need to rm ~/.local/share/repomaker where all the local and remote repos are stored. | 18:24:14 |
| izzy_ | Nico Alt: Thanks! | 18:45:18 |
| izzy_ | Sounds easy enough :) | 18:47:26 |
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 _hc | Marcus (BubuIIC): uniq I just had a thought: we could convert schweiger to being the VirtualBox-only test box. | 20:16:35 |
| _hc | Since the gcc boxes run | 20:16:36 |
| _hc | KVM on the bare metal, they can't run VirtualBox | 20:16:49 |
 uniq | could be very useful :) | 20:17:26 |
| _hc | that's why we have such hardware :-D | 20:19:55 |
| _hc | it should be online reliably these days, if anyone wants to convert it | 20:24:06 |
| _hc | Nico Alt: izzy_ FYI, to instlal flatpak on ElementaryOS (Ubuntu fork) I had to add a PPA, manually add flathub, then do flatpak install flathub org.fdroid.Repomaker | 20:41:06 |
| _hc | ok, wierd, you have to do flatpak run org.fdroid.Repomaker | 20:59:15 |
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