Nixpkgs: Packaging request: beaker browser

Created on 29 Mar 2018 · 4Comments · Source: NixOS/nixpkgs

Peer-to-peer web browser based on Dat protocol: https://beakerbrowser.com/
Repository: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker

I might come back and do this myself at some point, but I'm adding this here as a placeholder so that if anyone starts working on this, they can mention it here.

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patrl

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It would be probably better to build beaker with electron, but I use appimageTools to have beaker in nix:

{ stdenv, appimageTools, fetchurl }:
appimageTools.wrapType2 {
  name = "beakerbrowser";
  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/releases/download/0.8.7/Beaker.Browser.0.8.7.AppImage";
    sha256 = "0x29ysnqjf7f0s6kgqkm5wmc4d3zp2gfbg0qh78qgl4phyhfzgfr";
  };
}

kamilchm on 1 Apr 2019

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It would be probably better to build beaker with electron, but I use appimageTools to have beaker in nix:

{ stdenv, appimageTools, fetchurl }:
appimageTools.wrapType2 {
  name = "beakerbrowser";
  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/releases/download/0.8.7/Beaker.Browser.0.8.7.AppImage";
    sha256 = "0x29ysnqjf7f0s6kgqkm5wmc4d3zp2gfbg0qh78qgl4phyhfzgfr";
  };
}

kamilchm on 1 Apr 2019

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I think we should be less regarding and accept packages that use appimageTools.wrapType2, since this kind of application seems really annoying and discouraging to package, as show #66571 . You can be interesting on my work on #81833 , i now can provide a way to escape AppRun and let you run directly call ./beaker-browser .

bignaux on 8 Mar 2020

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