FLEx on rpm-based distribution?

[Stevan Vanderwerf]

At a FLEx workshop a user is using Fedora. Is there any chance that the user could use FLEx in some fashion besides installing virtualbox with ubuntu/wasta?. Maybe installing from source, has anyone tried it? 

Has there been any consideration of packaging FLEx in a snap for the future?

Stevan

LTC Eurasia FCH

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:00 AM Stevan Vanderwerf <stevan_v...@sil.org> wrote:

Yesterday Canonical announced the following:

Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format, enabling a single binary package to work perfectly and securely on any Linux desktop, server, cloud or device. This community is working at snapcraft.io to provide a single publication mechanism for any software in any Linux environment. This release quotes Dell, Samsung, the Linux Foundation, The Document Foundation, Krita, Mycroft, Horizon Computing, contributors to Arch, Debian, OpenWrt, Ubuntu, and several of their related distributions.

Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu. They are currently being validated on CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are easy to enable on other Linux distributions.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/14/universal-snap-packages-launch-on-multiple-linux-distros/

Explanation/analysis of what this means:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/goodbye-apt-and-yum-ubuntus-snap-apps-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere/

Seems to bode well for the linux world. But, even though the cross-linux compatibility component was initiated by 'the community' and partners, it's a bit hard to imagine non-ubuntu linux users will buy into it, due to the mistrust of Canonical. There are other competing formats, but, snaps seems to have some momentum!

Canonical has a good documentation here: installing: snapcraft.io/ creating: snapcraft.io/create

Hopefully the following won't be the case ; ):



Stevan