Debian Package
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Just filed an ITP to push this into Debian.
Saw the Ubuntu PPA, took description etc from there, but redid debian/rules and such.
Prelim packaging on salsa.debian.org, and also in branch debian on fork barak of this repo.
Please let me know if that's okay with you, if you'd like to co-maintain, or any other concerns or suggestions.
Cheers,
--Barak Pearlmutter barak@pearlmutter.net
This is great! It is already a bit of work for me to maintain this software project and packages for ubuntu and arch. Help with packaging is always appreciated. Can you send me some instructions to test out the debian repository?
I think flatpak will solve the majority of issues like this for all distro if we package them.
Okay, great.
Instructions? Sure. From the debian branch of https://github.com/barak/ytdl-gui
$ dpkg-checkbuilddeps
and install any missing dependencies, then
$ env DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT=no debian/rules binary
$ sudo dpkg --install ../youtubedl-gui_2.5-1_amd64.deb
I'll go ahead and upload it to Debian, since getting through the “new” queue takes forever. Once it's in the queue, you could test it by manually downloading and installing the binary package from https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/youtubedl-gui_2.5-1.html
How are you going to handle the continually-updating dependency of youtube-dl? Before I was using cmake, I had a postinstall script that installed youtube-dl by pip3 so that users could get the latest version, otherwise the application wouldn't run. Also since youtube-dl is a moving target, I'm not sure if flatpak is the way to go. If I remember correctly it needs static dependencies.
hey hoping on this thread may I build this for flatpaks, I've packaged a gitahead, this shouldn't be too hard too. flatpaks don't use static libraries but rather specific libraries used are the same across all linux distros that support flatpaks
There are two questions there I guess.
- Is the installed version of
youtube-dlcompatible with this version ofyoutubedl-gui? - Is the installed version of
youtube-dlreasonably functional with the web sites it interacts with?
I was pretty much assuming that neither of those are youtubedl-gui's problem. Debian right now has youtube-dl version 2021.02.10-1, so I figured that would suffice. But of course it would be better to have a versioned dependency. And maybe runtime detection of available options. Would certainly welcome advice.
There are two questions there I guess.
- Is the installed version of
youtube-dlcompatible with this version ofyoutubedl-gui?- Is the installed version of
youtube-dlreasonably function with the web site it interacts with?I was pretty much assuming that neither of those are
youtubedl-gui's problem. Debian right now hasyoutube-dlversion2021.02.10-1, so I figured that would suffice. But of course it would be better to have a versioned dependency. And maybe runtime detection of available options. Would certainly welcome advice.
It should be possible to add a check if a uptodate version of youtube-dl is installed and prompt the user to update it via pip if required
@AdvaithM Yeah sure, go ahead with the flathub package!
@barak This application does not include youtube-dl it requires it as a dependency. The application is designed to work with any version of it, but older versions of youtube-dl are broken and can't interface with youtube APIs properly. This is why most users on debian or ubuntu need to install it via pip.
we have a working build made by the build-bot flathub/flathub#2312 (comment) we now have to wait for it to be merged in
@JaGoLi Right, the package that I generated has an unversioned dependency on youtube-dl, so if a user tries to install the youtubedl-gui package it will automatically pull in youtube-dl. Sophisticated users could install youtube-dl in other ways (like a more recent version in /usr/local/bin/) and it should be okay. So it sounds like right now this is about as solved as possible, given the limitations of the Debian release cycle.
ytdl-gui is now on flathub, https://github.com/flathub/io.github.JaGoLi.ytdl_gui