There's no longer a non-deb linux release of quickgui since 1.2.6

[seltzered]

Hi! I've been happily using quickgui since last spring, and at the time was on Ubuntu and just installed it via the apt package.

More recently I started using Fedora and noticed since 1.2.6 there's only .deb packages distributed. What would be the best path to support other distributions - should one write a homebrew/linuxbrew formula to build from source? Noticing a challenge is flutter itself doesn't support installing itself that well outside of ubuntu (see flutter/flutter#9401 & flutter/flutter#25596 ).

Thanks,
Vivek

[seltzered]

( did briefly try to see if alien would work in converting the latest deb package, trying sudo alien --to-rpm quickgui_1.2.8-1_lunar1.0_amd64.deb ended up with Control file couldn't be read! at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 234. )

[ozky84]

Ubuntu changed deb packages to use zstd compression and alien doesn't supports it,try Focal package convert with alien as Focal use tar.xz compression in deb packages.....

[StudioCrash]

I downloaded the binary zip file and tried to manually build it but honestly I couldn't understand the instructions in the readmoe. Next I tried to install quickgui from the AUR on endeavour os using yay. Yay is a command line utility that automates the process of downloading and building package binaries from source. Awesome that it's there, but I get these errors during build.:

Flutter failed to create a directory at "/opt/flutter/bin/cache/downloads".
Please ensure that the SDK and/or project is installed in a location that has read/write permissions for the
current user.

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
-> error making: quickgui

Can instructions on how to build from source be included in the ReadMe file? Forgive me if I'm missing something.

edit: I found that if I installed quickgui-bin instead of quickgui, then it worked perfectly!!! For anyone else trying to get it from AUR use "quickgui-bin" instead of quickgui.

[ben-alkov]

Attempting to build quickgui from source, using WORKING flutter from GitHub source, consistently produces the utterly nonsensical

Resolving dependencies...
Because every version of flutter_localizations from sdk depends on intl 0.18.0 and quickgui depends on intl ^0.17.0,
  flutter_localizations from sdk is forbidden.
So, because quickgui depends on flutter_localizations from sdk, version solving failed.

[iEscapedVim]

Attempting to build quickgui from source, using WORKING flutter from GitHub source, consistently produces the utterly nonsensical

Resolving dependencies...
Because every version of flutter_localizations from sdk depends on intl 0.18.0 and quickgui depends on intl ^0.17.0,
  flutter_localizations from sdk is forbidden.
So, because quickgui depends on flutter_localizations from sdk, version solving failed.

flutter_localizations

go to quickgui/pubspec.yaml and on line 24 change intl: ^0.17.0 to that of current version shown in error for me it was intl: ^0.18.1 .

[ItsRogueRen]

Its 2024 now and there are still no rpm or appimage packages, is there a reason for this? Is there some technical limitation the is preventing these from being released?