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The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

Update: One might have been found!

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[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

(except snap, but they seem too Ubuntu specific).

For what it is worth you can install Snap on most distros. https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

But you can’t run your own snap repo

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Not officially but people have managed to reverse engineer it before in order to host their own - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lol-an-open-source-snap-server-implementation/27109

Whilst I do get the sentiment (and in no way do I support Canonical in keeping it proprietary), how likely is it that alternative Snap repos are going to show up if they did make it possible? Even with Flatpak where it is encouraged and documented I don't think I've heard of anyone setting up a Flathub alternative of any significance.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fedora also has their own flatpak remote, which only includes flatpaks build from Fedora rpms.

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