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Out of date apps in shop (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There has been a few instances of trying to get an app off of Pop!_Shop only to be met with an extremely out of date app.

I'm no expert, still very new, and I have no idea how the Pop!_Shop functions, but what is the process of getting apps updated? Is there something users can do, or do we just have to wait for the updated version to hit the shop?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

There are alternative ways to install apps outside the official repos. The best options depend on the applications and your comfort level/knowledge.

I tend to get precompiled apps directly as tarballs from the developers and place a symlink into $PATH, like $HOME/.local/bin. Depending on the app I will also make a .desktop file in $HOME/.local/share/applications.

AppImages from developers can be aliased in $HOME/.bashrc and .desktop files added to $HOME/.local/share/applications. Make sure libfuse2 is installed. AppImageLauncher is a handy way of integrating AppImages.

If a developer distributes a .deb themselves, it will very likely work just fine on Pop. It seems that .deb are generated with the assumption an Ubuntu LTS or previous Debian release. If they are targeting only the newest version of Ubuntu or Debian, they tend to state it.

I don't use alternative package managers like Homebrew and Nix, but they are an option as well.

Then there is always compiling from source, but it is rarely necessary, unless you want the bleeding edge of an apps development.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to add to that, you also have the option of using Flatpak, which already comes installed by default in Pop OS and integrated into Pop Shop. With Flatpak you can usually get a more recent version of the app, but the downside is larger install size.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Flatpak is definitely the way to go if you’re still getting started in your Linux journey.

The reason that flatpak apps are typically more up to date is because they are most often managed by the actual developer of the app. In contrast, the default apps in the Pop shop (which are deb packages, but that’s not super important) are managed and updated by popos itself (and/or Ubuntu/Debian that popos is built on), which is why they’re often slower to update. The developer has little to no day of when these packages are updated, and usually most packages are frozen between major releases of the distro.

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