Beta-Launcher for Linux

[onirosco]

@siebencorgie;748250

Hi,
The problem with all the different distros is the packaging. Its “easy enough” to have a .deb which cover like 70% of all Linux users and a .tar.gz for me because I use Arch. However, I also tried to do a .rpm which worked kind of okay, but wasn’t easy. For solus I would have to learn how to do it for their package manager.
I had a look at Flatpaks some time ago, but at this point it wasn’t and I think isn’t easy to create one for a package which needs quiet many rights for compiling and installing 3rd party software.
I hope that Epic’s Linux people will pack the launcher and UE4 at some point as Flatpak with a repository for stable and nightly builds plus all the dependencies. That would be awesome. I don’t have the time to learn a 3rd package format at the moment, sorry :/.
If I get some spare time, I might rewrite the launcher at some point in Rust and with Flatpaks in mind (When I wrote the python code I where a much bigger noob in programming than now :D). At that point all distros with Flatpak support should be covered (including Solus) ;).

-siebencorgie

Hi, Sorry… I was under the impression that the Solus team created all the packages for their Distro.
I thought they took programs that worked on other Distros and added them to their repo themselves…
Sorry if that’s not the case, I wouldn’t have asked if it meant more work for you.

Thanks anyway tho!