Linux is not only Ubuntu

Quite disappointed here : I’ve just bought a second-hand Samsung S7 because it is in the list of easy-installer Windows and Linux, but I don’t have Ubuntu, and you don’t provide any RPM of easy-installer !!!
That is not serious, because I’m sure you’ve got a RPM somewhere …
Can you tell me where I can find it ?
Thanks

Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/ the unGoogled mobile OS and online servicesphone

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OK I used the difficult way and it works. But I still suggest to provide a rpm of easy-installer !!!

Bye

They chose the snap way to account for that, link is at the end of https://doc.e.foundation/easy-installer-linux at “Reference guide to install on multiple OS with snap”.
Which leads to https://snapcraft.io/easy-installer, which has instructions for

Arch Linux
CentOS
Debian
elementary OS
Fedora
KDE Neon
Kubuntu
Manjaro
Linux Mint
openSUSE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu (yes, that too)

Obviously they can’t win, because “I want [insert RPM or something else not covered here], or I want instructions for [insert Linux distribution not mentioned on the page here]” in 3 … 2 … 1 … :wink:

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I understand selection of snap, but wonder would it require much work to offer also flatpak at flathub.

I won’t install snap myself, but on the other hand I like to use terminal. Still some would prefer flatpak and together with snap it would cover about all need for linux in easiest way.

What about using an appimage? That way everyone can use it, without needing to install something extra

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One can always build it from source.

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OK I missed it :frowning:
Thanks

I agree with you. I think it would really make sense to have Easy Installer available as Flatpak.
Only giving non-Ubuntu GNU/Linux users the choice between using snap or building from source is not the appropriate thing to do in my opinion, if you want /e/OS to reach more potential users.
Also, a presence on Flathub would be an additional way to advertise for /e/OS and Murena.
I’ve seen https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/5545 and https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/3394 and I was wondering, what’s the status of this ? @nicofonk @GaelDuval

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You can also install Ubuntu via gnome boxes, and then install easy installer. Just five minutes of work.

sidenote: OpenAndroidInstaller seems promising.

I used it to install a ROM on an S6 edge. Worked quite ok.

I totally agree. Flatpak is growing and gaining users, and would really enlarge the audience of the people “curious” about alternative mobile OS. Plus, people like me who don’t like to use Snap on Linux would have a choice

I agree as well. Snap is the worst of the distro agnostic packaging formats imo. Using Flatpak or AppImage makes a lot more sense to me. Probably Flatpak, since more people would find /e/ that way.