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Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games

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Re: Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games

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Spoiler alert: it requires Unity Web Player.

which isn't available on Linux

From Reddit

If you are on ubuntu just do this: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install pipelight-multi Afterwards run sudo pipelight-plugin --enable unity3d. Cheers :)

Credit to /u/rotundnut

Re: Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games

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> http://broxxar.itch.io/flappy48 Really? I have to install a plugin just to play a simple webgame?

"Aw man, I need to install Java to run this applet?" "Aw man, I need to install .NET to run this windows forms app?" "Aw man, I need to install QT framework to run gimp? "

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Re: Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

For all it's worth: the Gimp devs were originally the creators of GTK+, which stood for "GIMP Toolkit" - so GIMP doesn't rely on QT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK+

While this is true, still many package managers will insist on pulling in Qt when installing Gimp anyway, one of the suggested dependencies will require it. Lots of GTK apps will, because the OS team isn't thinking in the same terms you are. And unless you feel like telling your package manager no, an inordinately painful experience involving tracking down the errant dep and blocking it, and having to be forever vigi…

Gimp requires QT installed? I don't see how that can be the case, wouldn't it just get the dlls if it was deployed as a shared library
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