20 Jul
2020
20 Jul
'20
12:21 a.m.
On Sunday 19 July 2020 09:58:58 am Michael wrote:
Hey all,
I’ve reached out to the MX Linux group and asked:
How to add a DE to the MX Package Installer?
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=59309
The response is pretty positive and I think it’s at the point of needing a
TDE developer to contact their lead developer to work out what/which
options are available and what would be the next step.
Copy/Pasting current replies:
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by Michael-IDA » Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:14 pm [me]
I'm not a dev, but there has been interest by the TDE (Trinity Desktop
Environment) folks to get added into the 'official' MX build. What, or who,
can I point the TDE devs to?
by Jerry3904 » Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:28 pm [Administrator]
The Lead Dev: Dolphin Oracle.
by andyprough » Sat Jul 18, 2020 9:16 pm [User]
By the way, TDE is extremely easy to add to MX - just add the repos and the
gpg signing key from the Debian installation page
(https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Ins
tructions), and then apt update, and apt install tde-trinity. Works very
well on MX.
by Stevo » Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:49 pm [Developer]
That makes it simple to add to MX PI scripts, but are they looking for
real "official" approval from MX, or just being added to the installer?
Maybe they could work with us to set up an official MX-TDE edition, if
they're interested, though of course the XFCE-specific MX tools will again
have to modified for TDE right after dolphin_oracle has adapted them for
the upcoming KDE release. It would probably need both a 32 and a 64-bit
release. ###########
For whatever I’m capable, I’ll help.
This seems too easy.
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by dolphin_oracle » Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:05 pm
the files that we use to define what's in mx-packageinstaller->popular apps
are XML files. there are even places for screenshots, pre and post install
scripts if extra steps are needed, like adding repos.
https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist
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I found 4 examples with external repositories
https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist/search?q=repository…
To me ‘spotify_64.pm’ seems the closest match to what I believe we’d
want. ‘airvpn.pm’ is the most complex, probably good for example/reference.
In any event I copy/pasted/edited what I could (attached as tde_64.pm).
Which probably needs to go into the TDE git somewhere.
Things that definitely need checking:
- <installable> architecture(s) (I picked 64, not completely sure that’s
correct).
- method/place for # Import GPG signing key. (needs review by MX dev).
- when to use sudo and when it’s not needed (got no real clue why some
commands use it).
- <description> needs an official English description and then as many
translations as we can do.
We also need a TDE developer to interface with dolphin_oracle directly for
the ‘official’ request to add it to their system.
Anything else I can help with let me know,
Michael
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