Update 17-04-2020: to get the latest information keep track of my GitHub I will keep updating the readme and I will add more guides (like how to build your own 3rd-party repo) in the future. The GitHub organization that I created also contains all the package configs that I used.
The last few days I have been working on getting some 3rd-party repositories working on my local machine and now I have hosted them on my server for anyone to enjoy, please note some workarounds are still needed to get everything working properly as swupd 3rd-party is still in beta.
For now, I have packaged the following software, I do not plan on adding software upon request as this is mainly for my own personal use, however I might add more software when I start using it personally (GitKraken comes to mind right now).
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FFmpeg
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Flameshot
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Google Chrome Stable
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iio-sensor-proxy
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Skype
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Teams
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VSCode
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Zoom
In order to use the repository, we first have to enable it with:
sudo swupd 3rd-party add <repo-name> https://clear.greginator.xyz/
where <repo-name> can be anything, it is the name that will be used for the repository on your own machine and it will mean that all content of the repository will be placed under /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>
In order to list all available bundles from 3rd-party repos:
sudo swupd 3rd-party bundle-list -a
To update the 3rd-party repos:
sudo swupd 3rd-party update
In order to install the actual packages (note this will install all the packages, you can choose to only select a few)
sudo swupd 3rd-party bundle-add ffmpeg flameshot google-chrome-stable iio-sensor-proxy skype teams vscode zoom
Some fixes:
Making the software available through a desktop environment:
cp -R /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/share/applications $HOME/.local/share/applications
Make iio-sensor-proxy autostart
sudo cp -R /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib/udev /etc
sudo cp -R /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib/systemd /etc
Allow for large directory tracking in VS Code
sudo mkdir -p /etc/sysctl.d
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system
Adding the codecs to the path (note this doesn’t seem to be enough for firefox and vlc)
sudo sh -c 'echo /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf'
sudo ldconfig
To fix firefox and vlc (only for bash shell not for zsh, still working on a fix for that) add to /etc/environment
if [[ $UID -ge 1000 && -d /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib && -z $(echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH | grep -o /opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib) ]]
then
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib"
fi
The current workaround for zsh is a bit cumbersome but the following is needed for firefox:
echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib" >> ${HOME}/.config/firefox.conf
and for vlc just run
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/3rd-party/bundles/<repo-name>/usr/lib vlc
I hope this can be of use to some users out there and I want to thank the Clearlinux team for making great steps in improving the end-user experience by enabling 3rd-party repositories.
