(09-07-2021, 09:04 AM)wibble Wrote: I think you'll have to make it a bit more portable and well behaved before packaging it for snap or flatpak. For example hardcoded paths like /home/mobian will cause sandboxing problems for users other than mobian. It will probably be easier to package if you start with a more conventional installer too - the packaging tools can handle that in a standard way rather than having to be customised.

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/python.html
https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_meta.html

(09-08-2021, 02:01 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: I managed to almost get a flatpak working but the issue is a required library won't install with flatpak (known issue sadly) and have been trying to build a deb package but have had virtually zero success after 10+ hours. I don't get how it is seemingly so hard to just create a package.

Edit: I am now deciding I hate packaging apps in general so there's that. I did manage to package this into a deb package and would love some feedback. Though please read the Readme to get an understanding of what I am going for and the short comings.

The deb file is here https://gitlab.com/greenbeast/elephant_remember/-/blob/testing/elephant-remember_0.9_all.deb.gz so just download that and run `gunzip -d elephant-remember_0.9_all.deb.gz` in the same directory and then run `sudo apt install ./elephant-remember_0.9_all.deb` and it should install. I just did it on my PP and it worked fine.

(09-09-2021, 04:19 AM)biketool Wrote:

(09-08-2021, 02:01 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: I managed to almost get a flatpak working but the issue is a required library won't install with flatpak (known issue sadly) and have been trying to build a deb package but have had virtually zero success after 10+ hours. I don't get how it is seemingly so hard to just create a package.

Edit: I am now deciding I hate packaging apps in general so there's that. I did manage to package this into a deb package and would love some feedback. Though please read the Readme to get an understanding of what I am going for and the short comings.

The deb file is here https://gitlab.com/greenbeast/elephant_remember/-/blob/testing/elephant-remember_0.9_all.deb.gz so just download that and run `gunzip -d elephant-remember_0.9_all.deb.gz` in the same directory and then run `sudo apt install ./elephant-remember_0.9_all.deb` and it should install. I just did it on my PP and it worked fine.

I would appreciate your thoughts in this unified pinephone app repository thread https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14527
as well as wish list nominating your app here https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=wishlist
and how to submit it for Mobian repos https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=faq#how-do-i-contribute-an-app-or-code-to-mobian

(09-09-2021, 10:58 AM)ragreenburg Wrote: (snip)

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How would one get in touch with a mobian dev to get the app approved for the Mobian repo? I don't necessarily want this in the debian repo because it really is only built for phosh so I don't think it would be a great fit.

(09-09-2021, 12:58 PM)biketool Wrote:

(09-09-2021, 10:58 AM)ragreenburg Wrote: (snip)

Edit:
How would one get in touch with a mobian dev to get the app approved for the Mobian repo? I don't necessarily want this in the debian repo because it really is only built for phosh so I don't think it would be a great fit.

this should help with the Debian side of things.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/start.en.html
I have the .deb and will install it when I have a chance, sadly I am not in a daily driver mode yet so I am not sure how good a QA I can provide, but your contributions are a part of what will push the ecosystem form a hobby gadget like my OpenMoko was to a real useful device we cna all use without feeling bad for sacrificing our open source libre software and privacy principles.

(09-09-2021, 03:24 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: Good news is, I just released a new version with a few nice QOL fixes and an updated deb. Thank you for the encouraging words, honestly the struggle of trying and failing to make a deb/flatpak for hours on end made me want to just throw this project aside.

(09-10-2021, 02:04 AM)biketool Wrote:

(09-09-2021, 03:24 PM)ragreenburg Wrote: Good news is, I just released a new version with a few nice QOL fixes and an updated deb. Thank you for the encouraging words, honestly the struggle of trying and failing to make a deb/flatpak for hours on end made me want to just throw this project aside.

This is why we need a centralized and well documented/flowcharted way to Pinephone compatible apps with many examples even some video probably.  It gets tricky because this is not x86, or AMD64 but a special build for every other device that the OSs support, which complicates things.  So far I ahve been convinced that Flatpak is probably the way to go.  I can only cheerleader and suggest solutions we come up with here, I am not a coder and I have no authority, I can help problem solve this issue which will in my opinion make or break the ecosystem and ultimately the success of the Pine mobile hardware platforms.
The success of the apple phone OS, Googles moble OS, Symbian, even Maemo Linux and WebOS Linux were ultimately usable because they had both a fully populated set of basic function apps as well as the accessory apps to cover most needs as are found in all of the above OSs.  The fully populated 'app store' was strongly supported I know especially in the case of Palm and Nokia as basic competitive survival strategies.

I will try to get in contact with the big Pine related OS's communities(Manjaro, Mobian, and Postmarkett); I think UBports is too far off to join) and gauge their interest.  We already have the offer of support from Pine64 but it has to be our effort and then ask for resources as needed.