Team-Kodi PPA officially retired, switches to Flatpak
Team-Kodi PPA officially retired, switches to Flatpak
The Team Kodi PPA has long been a staple for Ubuntu (and similar) users wishing to use more recent, and less adulterated, versions of Kodi. It is with sadness that the team has come to a decision…
Meanwhile Inkscapes official methods to get the GTK4 nightly are
- appimage (broken by design)
- snap (only sandboxed on ubuntu and requires snapd)
- ppa (only on ubuntu at all, but possible through distrobox)
When there is a beta release there will likely be a flatpak soon though.
Why is Appimage broken by design?
Beyond the given arguments, App images are destined to have subpar Wayland support because the main dev behind app images is a toxic kid who has a weird attachment to the x server, to the point of rejecting PRs where others have done the work of improving Wayland support on his behalf.
Because Linux isn't Windows 95
It's a nightly build, I don't really see that as an issue. The stable build is available in every format I can imagine.
For sure. It is not a huge problem. But still kind if a bummer
Just get the exe and use wine. Or windows VM. I always use .exe for everything. I have no app images or flatpaks. On Ubuntu make a windows VM, in that windows VM install virtualbox and make an Ubuntu VM... And keep doing this until you have no disk space. Make a VM for every app.
I solved it.
FWIW, snaps are sandboxed on any system that uses AppArmor, which includes most Debian or SuSE based distros. There's also a partial implementation of the sandboxing for SELinux, but the different model makes doing a complete implementation problematic.
Makes sense - PPAs are very platform specific, plus from a user point of view a bit of a security nightmare (not the Kodi PPA but the idea of adding lots of different PPAs, often poorly named and difficult to keep track of as a user).
I used to get fed up with PPAs when I used Ubuntu - particularly when you to go through a major distro upgrade and you have to go hunting through all of them to see if they support your new distro version. They're just not a good distribution system for most users.
Also the Flatpak will benefit more users across other systems and has the potential to be more secure (particularly given the add ons people download and run in kodi).
Edit: worth noting they have retired the PPA but haven't built out all their equivalent Flatpak versions. An example of the unpaid hard work and hours volunteers put in to maintain open source software.
Oh snap!
What's a PPA?
It's basically a privately hosted repo with a very small set of programs/libraries. PPA is a Personal Package Archive.
If you run Ubuntu (or most Debian derivatives) you can add a PPA as an extra repo and the version of software in that repo will usually be newer than the versions maintained by the distro (or even not present in the distro).
It's not quite like the AUR - the AUR is a central public repo that people submit their packages to. Each PPA is a privately run and maintained repo with their packages in.
It is used by some projects to officially distribute their software but it is also something of a potential security nightmare.
Ubuntu' AUR (don't try to use it in Debian tho).
Hopefully nothing but a bad memory in the future.
Wow pog