MeeGo still needs a lot of love in the repository business, or in plain words: how to get more programs to your MeeGo device. Things like the universe/multiverse of ubuntu or the “extras-devel/extras” of maemo: People package new software, put it there and everybody else can download it.
If I understand correctly what OBS does, it should be fairly easy. Create your OBS “area”, upload your package, try to build it against the different MeeGo versions and when it is ready publish the URL of your repository with the result [This is not trivial. Is it possible at all?]. Once the things are properly tested, promote that package to a common well-know repository and we all are happy.
That is not the situation now, but that didn’t stop the community to package some very useful software. You just need to dig in “underground” repositories. To save some browsing time for other users, here are my two favorite repositories:
- Community repo with mplayer, xchat and gstreamer plugins (to play all those formats unsupported in the vanilla installation)
- Madeo (arfoll) repo with XBMC, a great media center that works nicely in MeeGo… (it deservers its own post)
Other interesting software like Transmission is in the official repos, and MeeGo is a plain linux inside, so the official sopcast client for linux works just following their instructions.
More sources for packages are welcome as comments. Hope this helped.
Hi
Take a look at:
http://wiki.meego.com/Community_Office/Task_Forces/MeeGo_Surrounds_and_Extra
and
http://wiki.meego.com/Community_Office/Task_Forces/MeeGo_Surrounds_and_Apps/Apps
As for the ‘It should be fairly easy’ : you say [This is not trivial. Is it possible at all?] … and then link to Madeo where arfoll is doing just that
I’m also hoping we can learn from the mistakes of Maemo – the MeeGo OBS provides PPAs and completely removes the need for random ‘community’ repositories of the kind you link to on the forum? Zigbee has done a huge amount of work there and kudos to him – but I have to say I’d like see that work moving more towards a proper community effort rather continuing with a personal project.
Remember: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ … 64 random places to download binaries onto your device… what could possibly go wrong?
David/lbt
(“community OBS guy”)
@David Thanks for your comment and links. Actually, what i was looking for is this!
My “easiness” complain was about the time i needed to spend in Google and in forums with outdated instructions sometimes, to find the repository for the packages i needed. It seems all i needed was to use this search.