Distributing Stellarium as an Appimage was a wonderfully simple way (for users ;-))to keep up to date with this incredible piece of software using almost any 64-bit flavour or version of Linux. Would it be possible to continue doing so, and if not, I'd be interested (for technical reasons) to know why? Thanks.
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gzotti, you are a star! Thanks for that feedback. FWIW, I find AppImage format to be a far more conveniant distribution format than either snap or flatpack - integrates seamlessly with home directory settings.
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I cannot comment on any of these formats. Alexander does the packing, so it's him who deserves the flowers ;-) If you know a solution to the problem, we'd be glad to hear about it.
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Sorry about the delay Alexander, above appimage downloaded and tested on Debian 9.12. I can update satellite database via (via HTTP?), so all good so far. Thank you for that. Unfortunately I'm no Appimage wizard, otherwise i'd offer my help to try and resolve this HTTPS issue. Is this a fault in the linuxdeployqt or appimagetool binary AppDir creator? I could hassle them about this problem :-)
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Distributing Stellarium as an Appimage was a wonderfully simple way (for users ;-))to keep up to date with this incredible piece of software using almost any 64-bit flavour or version of Linux. Would it be possible to continue doing so, and if not, I'd be interested (for technical reasons) to know why? Thanks.
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/issues/1109
gzotti, you are a star! Thanks for that feedback. FWIW, I find AppImage format to be a far more conveniant distribution format than either snap or flatpack - integrates seamlessly with home directory settings.
I cannot comment on any of these formats. Alexander does the packing, so it's him who deserves the flowers ;-) If you know a solution to the problem, we'd be glad to hear about it.
I can prepare AppImage package, but this package will not work with any HTTPS websites due problem in AppImage builder.
Just test it: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/download/beta/Stellarium-0.20.1.17991-x86_64.AppImage
Sorry about the delay Alexander, above appimage downloaded and tested on Debian 9.12. I can update satellite database via (via HTTP?), so all good so far. Thank you for that. Unfortunately I'm no Appimage wizard, otherwise i'd offer my help to try and resolve this HTTPS issue. Is this a fault in the linuxdeployqt or appimagetool binary AppDir creator? I could hassle them about this problem :-)
https://gitlab.com/probono/platformissues - the problem is well known
Last edit: Alexander V. Wolf 2020-06-14