[opensource-dev] viewer-release vs The Penguins

[misteracacia at gmail.com]

Attempting this on a non-GNOME distro (Xubuntu 18.04.3), I was told I 
was missing org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.30. Installing that allowed me 
to proceed.


On 2/4/20 3:28 PM, Nicky D. wrote:
>
> it has been a while since LL released their last Linux capable viewer. 
> To get things started
> again I brought 6.3.6 up to Linux support:
> https://bitbucket.org/NickyD/viewer-linux
> https://bitbucket.org/NickyD/viewer-flatpak (for the flatpak build 
> scripts)
>
> As I know the chances to see a penguin fly are bigger than get a 
> release from
> LL, I also created a flatpak that users can install and run 
> (instructions below).
> I'm still pondering to make an AppImage from it, but that's something 
> for another day.
>
> Differences in the Linux version:
> - Uses SDL2 rather than SDL (so the "OS" version can be used).
> - Uses GTK3 instead of GTK2, again to not have to compile the old GTK 
> version.
> - OpenAL instead of FMODEX, there's no way to download FMODEX anymore. 
> Once
> FMOD Studio gets into the viewer I add it to the Linux release.
> - No KDU. I obviously don't have access to LLs version of KDU and 
> won't use the one I have for Firestorm.
> - GStreamer 1.0 instead of VLC. GStreamer being part of the OS it gets 
> updated by the OS (Flatpak in this case) rather than shipping some 
> ancient VLC version.
> - dullahan/CEF is added. So it got the usual web browser as 
> Windows/OSX got.
> - It's obviously unsupported.
>
> The flatpak is hosted by The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc. 
> (https://www.firestormviewer.org/about/) but could easily hosted by 
> any webserver or say AWS/S3.
>
> Installation:
> flatpak is needed and must be installed via the distros usual ways 
> (https://flatpak.org/setup/)
> Then the viewer can be installed either system or user specific:
>
> Add Flatpak repo
>
>  *
>     Systemwide:
>      o
>         flatpak remote-add viewer-builds
>         https://flatpak.firestormviewer.org/viewer.flatpakrepo
>  *
>     User install
>      o
>         flatpak remote-add --user viewer-builds
>         https://flatpak.firestormviewer.org/viewer.flatpakrepo
>
> Install viewer (it will give the option which branch, stable has the 
> advantage that it can be updated as new released get added):
>
>  *
>     Systemwide:
>      o
>         flatpak install viewer-builds viewer-release
>  *
>     User install
>      o
>         flatpak install --user viewer-builds viewer-release
>
> Run the viewer
>
>  *
>     flatpak run org.lindenlab.viewer-release
>
>
> Cheers,
>    Nicky
>
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