@tragivictoria @reflex To be honest, I’m not sure about the reasons yet. There are simply too many more pressing issues now. Looking into Flatpak support is on my list of things to do, eventually. Dolphin is on Flathub, so I guess that it is possible.

Of course this doesn’t have to wait for me to find time. If somebody else were willing to look into it that would be great…

@reflex One thing that I hope to get done for the next major release is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/-/work_items/323 – that will allow “portable” builds where you unpack a ZIP file and the application just works. It will definitely make trying it out easier, especially on distributions where you cannot rely on a package repository to provide you with the newest release.

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RE: https://floss.social/@gcmd/116676637742341221

@reflex @tragivictoria
It is done.

@gcmd @tragivictoria I downloaded it and attempted to execute out of the directory I unzippped to and am getting an error while loading shared libraries libvte-2.91-gtk4.so.0

Unclear if it has a dependency I don't have or if that should have been packaged with it.

@reflex It’s the former, libvte 0.76 or higher is required. Gnome-based distributions usually have that already. I’ll write up a brief explainer eventually so that it can be packaged along with these builds.

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@gcmd @tragivictoria Got it, guessing that's not standard on Zirconium (no gnome on the system).

@tulilirockz ?

@reflex Ah, figured it out. Apparently, Fedora dropped support for the classic BIOS. But it won’t tell you that. Instead, it will happily install, only to fail to boot afterwards. 🤪

On to the next problem: desktop failing to start up…

@gcmd lol sorry about this, I didn't mean to put a bunch of work on you. Is there something I could do on my system to help?

Also, while I live in Lisbon, due to my job I'm on Seattle time so sorry for the long delay in replies, I don't get up until the afternoon here lol!

@reflex Nah, it’s ok. I need to know what kind of exotic distributions are out there. Either way, I don’t actually need the desktop to see how the system works, command line will do as well.

I can see the issue. The base system is read-only and has no Gtk or anything. But it has GNOME platform installed as Flatpak which *mostly* does the job but it lacks libvte. Which means that one has to resort to ugly hacks like installing this app: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox

@reflex Once it is installed you can set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable to use its copy of libvte for Gnome Commander. From the command line it looks like this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.raggesilver.BlackBox/current/active/files/lib/
./gnome-commander

As I said, an ugly hack. I hope that at some point we will have our own Flatpak, then dependencies won’t be an issue.

@reflex Heh, that libvte is too old, older than 0.76.

I expected this issue to be handled more gracefully than just running into an error. But it seems that vte4 crate doesn’t do a version check, good to know…

@reflex I filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/-/work_items/368 on our code not doing version checks, so we should at least have a meaningful error message in future.

Maybe https://flathub.org/en/apps/app.devsuite.Ptyxis will work for you – it seems current. So if you are still into ugly hacks:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/lib/flatpak/app/app.devsuite.Ptyxis/current/active/files/lib/

@gcmd Getting it working on atomic/immutable systems I think is important, as is getting it in flathub when you have time (or at least brew). I did notice some of the plugins are marked as missing dependencies, if you want any help tracking down needed stuff to ensure a fully self contained install let me know.

Spent a lot of my career in software QA, happy to help.