macOS and Linux osu! installer

[lqf96]

Currently there aren't any osu! installers for macOS and Linux, and people has to run nuget under mono to install the osu! package, which prevents people from reporting problems on macOS and Linux. We should release installer programs for these platforms.
Also, to keep these installers slim we might consider not including the nuget package inside installers, but instead download the package when the installer is executed.

[peppy]

This is a zero-priority task for now.

[ohmree]

You generally don't use installers on Linux, but it's possible (and easy on some distros) to create packages. A debian/ubuntu package and a rpm package should be enough together with the existing Arch PKGBUILD (but for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora/openSUSE/whatever we're gonna need prebuilt binaries).

[VPeruS]

Custom installer way better than creating infinite amount of packages for different package managers, as all that osu required is to put to PATH dir osu!lazer shell script + some configs(for mime types).

[ohmree]

Generally using the package manager is the best way to install packages on *nix and in reality we're really only going to need RPM and DEB packages, 2 < infinity

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[wobbol]

Arch is already covered from the AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/osu-lazer-git/

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On Jul 21, 2017 2:54 PM, "VperuS" ***@***.***> wrote: Custom installer way better than creating infinite amount of packages for different package managers, as all that osu required is put to PATH dir osu!lazer shell script + some configs(for mime types). — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1030 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFgfxZs74IrzazNL8q40NTCimVA2X5Bsks5sQQHrgaJpZM4OdQwY> .

[VPeruS]

Fogot Gentoo with their package system, Slackware, *BSD. Arch as always, what a nice package system, contributor even fix mime identification.

[ohmree]

But most of these other distros have a less "newbie" userbase and good means of making 3rd party packages (Arch already has a package, Gentoo, Void, Slackware, BSDs). By supplying even just a DEB package you're covering a large enough userbase (Steam, for example, only supports Ubuntu). Theoretically you could use the DEB package to make packages for other distros (either by extracting the DEB file in a PKGBUILD/any other build script or by using alien if it works for DEB -> RPM conversion) On Jul 21, 2017 11:41 PM, "VperuS" <notifications@github.com> wrote: Fogot Gentoo with their package system, Slackware, *BSD. Arch as always, what a nice package system, contributor even fix mime identification. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1030 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM1QKRiwLB0RykCrKyi2X1W1j50wpipUks5sQQ0UgaJpZM4OdQwY> .

[peppy]

The AUR package is not official and will likely be replaced/removed going forward.

This topic is not open for discussion currently, so I'm going to lock this for now. Please help finish the game instead.