Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

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Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

2016-05-31, 16:04:08

What do you think about question in topic theme?

Re: Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

Reply #1 – 2016-05-31, 16:26:21

Maybe one day but not now. Otter keeps a pretty good ppa anyways.

Let's not overburden the authors.

Re: Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

Reply #2 – 2016-06-01, 19:59:53

Quote from: mitchts on 2016-05-31, 16:04:08

What do you think about question in topic theme?

Nothing. There are a lot of distros using deb-packages, but currently only one using snap. Snaps are supposed to bring their own dependencies, so downloaded packages get much bigger and systems get bloated.
Don't waste time on this at this stage, there's no advantage for users. Make Otter a working browser with mail client. That's what's important.

Re: Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

Reply #3 – 2016-06-17, 12:15:04

We go a ticket for this task recently:
https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1148

Re: Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

Reply #4 – 2016-07-08, 08:17:34

Any update on this?

Re: Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

Reply #5 – 2016-07-24, 08:25:07

@bluedragon77, I've recently prepared script to mostly automate creation of PPA packages, so I would like to stick with them. ;-)
But some additional portable format would be great, but so far Appimage appears to the best choice.

Re: Snap packeges instead of deb for Ubuntu?

Reply #6 – 2016-07-28, 08:30:32

Aha. Since you are working on that, perhaps you could add a postinst script to the debian packages which would add the ppas automagically whenever a user installs otter. Depending on which package he installed the package would either add the weekl or beta ppa.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/194437/how-can-i-create-a-deb-file-that-adds-a-repository-to-sources-list-d