[DONE] What happened to the linux installer

[calhaus]

(23rd Jan, 2015 05:12 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  

(23rd Jan, 2015 04:58 AM)calhaus Wrote:  Same xcb problem.

I think we should go with the dynamic app.
For a clean Ubuntu (and Mint) 14.04 and 14.10 (and probably 1 year recent distros) everything is already included and works fine.

elementaryOS release luna is still based on ubuntu 12.04, it's kind of old. and they don't even have qt5 stuff on the repos. :/

Tried the new upcoming elementary (Freya), it got dependency issues, easily solved by installing "qt5-default"
If users got dependencies problems, it shows in the terminal output which ones are and they can go and install what's missing, and "qt5-default" should install everything needed for it to work.

In my opinion it's easy to use a small installer and include a readme file telling people to install "qt5-default" if they have faulty dependencies. (it's around 65mb if i'm not mistaken, not that much, and most systems dont even need it).
(Also it's easier for users to compile the git version dynamically).

the best option I would say, as I mentioned before
btw, how many of you heard of anyone used elementaryOS before I mentioned it? I had it installed just to test. it was nice eye candy looking thing but as you can see there are some issues, and trust me, it wasnt just this. there were so many other issues.
And I still think, the best is to focus on most common and most used

Yes. in the most common works fine. (Haven't tested debian, fedora, arch or suse, but they should have qt5 dependencies installed or in the repos also, or they can download and install qt5-default).

(About elementary, never used it, just new it was really simple and installed their music player (noise) because of it's simplicity and had the things i needed, but did not worked 100% at the time and removed it)