02-18-2021, 03:08 PM
Just spent 2 hours trying to install Amazfish on Manjaro. This is not a trivial thing. The amount of dependencies needed to get it to compile from a fresh image of the distro on the phone is enough to make you give up. pacman is in no way intuitive at all compared to yum/dnf or apt making it harder to figure out what magic switches you need to pass to it to make it update or install dependencies.
I got it to finally install and it runs, but still haven't been able to figure out how to pair a Pinetime with it successfully. I can pair the watch to the phone, but Amazfish still doesn't see it. I'm tired of wrestling with this for now, and will try it later.
This won't get any adoption if compiling from source and troubleshooting our own errors during compilation is how to get apps installed. It needs to be packaged in a way that it can easily be downloaded and installed (like a deb or rpm package) or contained completely in an runable format (like an appimage, flatpak, or snap).
I got it to finally install and it runs, but still haven't been able to figure out how to pair a Pinetime with it successfully. I can pair the watch to the phone, but Amazfish still doesn't see it. I'm tired of wrestling with this for now, and will try it later.
This won't get any adoption if compiling from source and troubleshooting our own errors during compilation is how to get apps installed. It needs to be packaged in a way that it can easily be downloaded and installed (like a deb or rpm package) or contained completely in an runable format (like an appimage, flatpak, or snap).
