when will Dolphin 5.0 come to linux(ubuntu) ?

[jianu81]

I've checked the PPA and it's not there and there's no download link on the site.Should i wait ?

[TheDaftRick]

I would like to also say something other than a .deb for 5.0 would be amazing so any Linux distro could run it easily.

A snap package, flatpak, appimage, or a .tar.gz would work on almost all distros

[Fallcrest]

(06-25-2016, 06:25 AM)TheDaftRick Wrote: I would like to also say something other than a .deb for 5.0 would be amazing so any Linux distro could run it easily.

A snap package, flatpak, appimage, or a .tar.gz would work on almost all distros

Snappy and Flatpak are either experimental or not directly implemented on most distros (the latest version of Fedora just enabled Flatpak, and Ubuntu still hasn't made Snappy available by default), and as far as I know, appimage has not had that wide of an adoption. It could be done, but nobody would have any idea if it would work properly. Plus, as the website for Flatpak will tell you, Flatpak applications currently don't play well with Github, making fixing things difficult because you would have to rebuild it as a Flatpak from the source every single time you wanted to test something.

Since the user would have to configure Snappy or Flatpak manually anyways, it is a lot of extra work on the developer's part for very little actual benefit to the user. Maybe once Red Had and Canonical duke it out for a little bit and a winner is decided, then Dolphin could have one distributed Linux build. Until then, having there just be a single format is the easiest to test and covers a wide amount of Linux users of Dolphin.

[Helios]

clone the repo then run

git checkout tags/5.0

Then build. You now have 5.0

[Toasty]

I just finished adding jobs to my build server for producing RPMs on Fedora 23/24. I can upload those if anyone's interested. I don't know a whole lot about snap or flatpack, but I'm interested in trying to build those packages. I could probably add a builder for Ubuntu too without much difficulty.

If you want a tarball though, it's literally as simple cloning the git repo, running cmake, and then running `make package`. That will trigger cpack, which will produce a number of packages (including a gzip tarball).

[sergio-br2]

I'm updating it right now.

[jianu81]

Yeah,was just updated 40 mins ago.Thanks! You have a build for Ubuntu 16.10 ?

[leolam]

Flatpak was already tried by some people (including myself) some days ago, and it was a complete failure because of libudev. It's not ready for use at all.

[sergio-br2]

(06-25-2016, 04:42 PM)jianu81 Wrote: Yeah,was just updated 40 mins ago.Thanks!  You have a build for Ubuntu 16.10 ?

It doesn't make sense to have a stable release on a unstable and volatile system... you'll have problem with dependencies sooner or later.

Install dolphin-emu-master instead.