Cross-platform dependency-agnostic packaging for Linux
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 1:00 pm
Greetings Simplify3D -
I use Simplify3D on Windows all the time, but would love to use it in Linux as well. Unfortunately, I am never able to get the application to work on my Linux systems. It appears to be an issue of library compatibility (my systems are too new apparently), and it's very hard to debug. So, I wanted to suggest an alternative way of shipping the Linux install: AppImage [ http://appimage.org/ ] or an alternative like Flatpak [ http://flatpak.org/ ] instead. I've been a Linux user for a while, and I know we are a small audience and the difficulties of porting, but my hope is that these frameworks will make your lives easier (and means you shouldn't have to worry about quirks about the various distributions out there). I've used a few desktop applications based on AppImage recently, and it works great on all of my systems. Hope this is useful!
I use Simplify3D on Windows all the time, but would love to use it in Linux as well. Unfortunately, I am never able to get the application to work on my Linux systems. It appears to be an issue of library compatibility (my systems are too new apparently), and it's very hard to debug. So, I wanted to suggest an alternative way of shipping the Linux install: AppImage [ http://appimage.org/ ] or an alternative like Flatpak [ http://flatpak.org/ ] instead. I've been a Linux user for a while, and I know we are a small audience and the difficulties of porting, but my hope is that these frameworks will make your lives easier (and means you shouldn't have to worry about quirks about the various distributions out there). I've used a few desktop applications based on AppImage recently, and it works great on all of my systems. Hope this is useful!