hi guys ,
i am just a small flutter developer student and i usually face the problem of installing the application form the different format like .deb and tar.gz so i created my own package installer
i just wanted to know is that okay for the linux. like does people need it ? and like does there are any alternative and how can publish it after testing because i also wanted to contribute in linux community
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If People need it ... I guess that this is a difficult Question. Sometimes People first know what they need when they need it - even when they thought they wouldn't.
To publish it ... You could create a Website and offer it for download, publish it on Github or Flathub.
Well, I like it. It is the only one I have seen that makes the package format abundantly clear instead of trying to keep it vague and set a default as an action of 'conflict of interest favoritism.'
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I believe this could be a great project over the time.
On Windows I always use UnigetUI. This is a great all in one app manger for Windows. Sadly there is no alternative for it on the Linux side. I have tried the few ones that are available on Linux and all of them have something missing.
- Synaptic is a huge UX nightmare for me at this modern age and it's only for managing apt packages.
- Warehouse is great but only for flatpaks.
- GearLever is only for appimage.
- Gnome Software somehow decent for apt, flatpak & snap but not for deb & appimage.
- Baazar, although never tried, it's only for flatpaks.
From your provided screenshots and their descriptions, your app fills all these gaps. The UI is simple, minimal and while being feature full that brings all the major package manager in one place. The feature for installing local packages like deb, tar.gz and appimage is surely a great plus point. Your app looks very close to UnigetUI and what it does, it looks promising to me to be a great alternative to it on the Linux side. And in general this certainly has a place in Linux world. I would love to try it. I will suggest to continue work on it and publish it in GitHub with its source code.
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Definitely and I planned to integrate the total virus to it so that user can scan the local file but free tier only gives 32 mb