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A simple and secure way to distribute 3rd-party applications
L i s t a l l e r
Matthias Klumpp
mak@debian.org matthias@tenstral.net
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L i s t a l l e r A simple and secure way to distribute 3rd-party applications Matthias Klumpp mak@debian.org matthias@tenstral.net X K C D 9 2 7 Wh y ? P e o p l e w a n t t o h a v e n e w s o f t
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P a c k a g e K i t & L i s t a l l e r
Software Center
packagekitd
Active Queue Package Manager
SYSTEM DBUS
Backend Instance Runner T ask Helper Executable Update Viewer
STDIN STDERR STDOUT
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C r e a t e p a c k a g e !
earth@sun:~/Development/Bloatpad$ lipkgen -b --sign
- Runs depscan
- Detects required components: GTK+3 (>= 3.12), GLib2 (>= 2.36), Xorg,
gnome-icon-theme, GStreamer1.0 (>= 1.0)
- Generates package structure, signs package
- Runs lilith:
W: icon 'bloatpad.png' has wrong size: 64x52 instead of 64x64 W: missing ';' in 'bloatpad.desktop' Categories field I: desktop-file 'Bloatpad.desktop' is missing keywords! I: no upstream author defined
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U s e r i n s t a l l s p a c k a g e
earth@sun:~$ pkcon install-local Bloatpad-1.0_amd64.ipk earth@sun:~$ lipa -i Bloatpad-1.0_amd64.ipk
- Our user runs KDE
- Listaller will search for native
packages declaring the missing components and install them
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U s e r r u n s a p p l i c a t i
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earth@sun:~$ runapp bloatpad
- Application is run by specifying it's desktop-filename
as argument to runapp
- Runapp will take care of sandboxing the application,
- r warn about missing dependencies
- Will soon support DBus-activated applications as
well
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D e v e l
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earth@sun:~$ lirepo -a Bloatpad-1.2_amd64.ipk
- Add new releases to the update repository
- Also allows cross-distro application repositories („AppStores“), but
users need to add these manually
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