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>apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux

Major kudos to these guys for distributing their software properly on Linux!

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Let me rephrase that.

Major kudos to these guys for enduring distributing their software properly on Linux!

It's easy to write a PKGBUILD for Arch, and IDK RPM but writing a Debian package is not that hard too, I've written a .deb that installs all the software I use on Ubuntu Gnome and it's just a directory and two or three files. Its docs could use a bit of help though, the Debian handbook is sometimes very superficial.

Well, offering a repo is yet another step further than just putting a .deb on the website.

Would you share how you made that deb? Sounds useful.

I just made a blog post on this: http://www.gkayaalp.com/deb.html

Thanks.

i think the hard part is maintaining it more than creating it. Library dependency and testing.

There is a lot more than just creating a package.

In the past few months, I see some popular linux softwares started to using AppImage (https://appimage.org/) to distribute prebuilt binary. Not sure if it is a good option for SublimeText.

I'm not a big fan of AppImage. It takes everything good about static linking and then fucks it all up.

That's what electro-build does by default. It's a terrible solution for end users, because it results in huge bloated statically-linked images, but at least it works everywhere.

I do prefer what Sublime Text is doing here though. Kudos to them, it's a lot of work.

I vastly prefer it to hunting for executables on websites, thank you. And there isn't that many relevant distress to target, especially with things like Flatpack etc.

I second this. It's one of the rare non-default apps I'm installing on by Linux workstations!

I agree, too many just ship a deb or a simple archive, which is not the best update experience for non-Ubuntu users, even if i.e. the AUR solves most of the pain.

It reminds me that Atom still does have an official repository...

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