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Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by yareally »

TheCoreh wrote: post #24
subway wrote: post #21

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse)…

> ...I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve

Checkinstall makes building debs pretty easy if you're using make to build the app.

https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing...

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by brbsix »

yareally wrote: post #31
TheCoreh wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse)…

> ...I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve Checkinstall makes building debs pretty easy if you're using make to build the app. https://www.debian-administration.org/article/147/Installing...

checkinstall installs the software in order to build the .deb, so it is sort of dangerous in that regard. It would not keep your home dir safe. I would recommend running it in a virtual machine.

Building .debs is not all that difficult, just sort of an archaic and not particularly well-documented process. fpm (Ruby Gem) is worth looking into if you want a quick'n'dirty way to create packages.

Re: Show HN: Stremio – watch movies, series, YouTube channels, live TV

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Post by dalore »

TheCoreh wrote: post #24
subway wrote: post #21

Heads up for any one grabbing the Linux dist -- this tarball just took a shit all over my homedir. It's 2016. Why do we still suck at distributing software?

I'd say we mostly suck at distributing Linux software. I'm not sure if improvements have been made recently, but I remember reading the docs on how to create .deb bundles a couple years ago, and the impression I got was that it had a somewhat steep learning curve. Considering not everyone runs Debian or Ubuntu, you also either need to provide other package formats as well, a tarball with instructions or (even worse)…

If anything distributing Linux software is leaps and bounds ahead of any of system. Just apt-get/yum or whatever your distro uses and you get the app all installed, configured, files tracked. Easily updated.

And making a package from a source tarball is as easy as checkinstall.

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