Wire-desktop: When should we expect a .rpm?

[manasthakur]

Congrats for making a debut on Linux. However, I am a Fedora user. Hope to see a .rpm soon...

[lipis]

soon... :)

[lipis]

You should be able to run it on Fedora now with AppImage: https://wire.com/download/

[probonopd]

Would be more visible if "source code" wasn't the default for Linux but the binary 64-bit AppImage, like for the other OSes.

[ConorIA]

We could also add "rpm" to the electron-builder targets.
Or @manasthakur can try to build it himself with something like:

git clone https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop
cd wire-desktop
yarn
node_modules/.bin/build --linux rpm --x64

[lowy]

I don't understand why don't run appImage on fedora25

lowy@fedora~ $ /home/lowy/wire/wire-2.11.2685-x86_64.AppImage [11:41:48]
installed: X-AppImage-BuildId=49c70950-bc82-11a6-1630-ef85a7ed905f image: X-AppImage-BuildId=49c70950-bc82-11a6-1630-ef85a7ed905f
[1] 9769 segmentation fault (core dumped) /home/lowy/wire/wire-2.11.2685-x86_64.AppImage

lowy@fedora~ $ uname -a [11:43:09]
Linux fedora 4.8.15-300.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 15 23:10:23 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lowy@fedora~ $ cat .local/share/applications/appimagekit-wire.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Wire
Comment=Modern communication, full privacy.
Exec="/home/lowy/wire/wire-2.11.2685-x86_64.AppImage" %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=appimagekit-wire
StartupWMClass="Wire"
X-AppImage-Version=2.11.2685.33
X-AppImage-BuildId=49c70950-bc82-11a6-1630-ef85a7ed905f
Categories=Network
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.23
X-AppImage-Comment=Generated by /tmp/.mount_c2wb5S/AppRun
TryExec=/home/lowy/wire/wire-2.11.2685-x86_64.AppImage

[ConorIA]

I tried to help a Fedora user troubleshoot in #227. Take a look. Unfortunately the segfault isn't very descriptive.

[vlisivka]

RPM for Fedora/CentOS/RedHat: http://koji.russianfedora.pro/koji/packageinfo?packageID=136

[ghost]

@vlisivka Too bad the latest build is not up go date.

[ConorIA]

Try: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/issues/799#issuecomment-315771060

[vlisivka]

@ConorIA no src-rpm, no .spec. I will not trust random site so mach.

Here is src.rpm with .spec inside, which can be rebuilt with newer sources: http://koji.russianfedora.pro/kojifiles/packages/wire-desktop/2.13.2739/1.fc24.R/src/wire-desktop-2.13.2739-1.fc24.R.src.rpm

[ConorIA]

@vlisivka, it's all in the open. The sources are at https://gitlab.com/ConorIA/wire-builds.
I've never used an RPM-based distro before, so I won't be able to offer any support for these builds. The builds use electron-builder, which doesn't provide me with a .src.rpm or a .spec file. If this is something that can be implemented, I am happy to accept a merge request. I also recommended the Russian Fedora link above, but the user complained that the rpm was out of date.

[vlisivka]

@ConorIA it's easy to rebuild RPM package when .spec file and sources are available: mock will do the job for requested distro: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/05/11/building-rpm-packages-with-mock/ . Generally, it's bad idea to install binary-only RPM's, unless source is trusted. Moreover, users often prefer to have working package instead of the latest one.

[ghost]

Well, I can't help now with the .rpm package, I switched to Ubuntu Gnome.
And one of the reasons was to have an up to date Wire-Desktop App, where
updates are managed by the system.

2017-07-17 14:03 GMT-04:00 Volodymyr Lisivka [e-mail]:

@ConorIA https://github.com/conoria it's easy to rebuild RPM package
when .spec file and sources are available: mock will do the job for
requested distro: https://blog.packagecloud.io/
eng/2015/05/11/building-rpm-packages-with-mock/ . Generally, it's bad
idea to install binary-only RPM's, unless source is trusted. Moreover,
users often prefer to have working package instead of the latest one.

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[ConorIA]

@vlisivka, I was very close to getting a mock-based build, until I hit a wall. To build with mock on Docker one needs to use the --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN flag on the container. I can't find an easy way to do that on Docker. I don't have any more time to spend on this right now. If you feel like trying. Here is what I was working with DONE: https://conoria.gitlab.io/wire-builds/

[ghost]

@ConorIA

Will the rpm you created update with the system ?

[ConorIA]

If you add the repo at https://cubert.conr.ca/repos/fc26, it should.

[ghost]

@ConorIA

Do you need to install some other dependencies ?

[ConorIA]

The rpm should pull in all the necessary dependencies.

[ghost]

@ConorIA

Installed it on Fedora 26 ! Works great.

But I don't know how to add the repo...

[ConorIA]

@1Claude, it should be as simple as:

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://cubert.conr.ca/repos/fc26

(See here)

If you would like to verify the GPG signatures of the package and repo, you can follow this guide (see the second half).

[ghost]

Done!

Many thanks, man. :-)

[ghost]

@ConorIA

Maybe you could set up your rpm there for Fedora : https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

[ConorIA]

@1Claude, you can test that too! (conria/wire-desktop).

dnf copr enable conoria/wire-desktop 

See also: #819

[ghost]

Wow. Great work. I'll test it and share the word.

2017-07-21 2:40 GMT-04:00 Conor Anderson [e-mail]:

@1Claude https://github.com/1claude, you can test that too! (
conria/wire-desktop
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/conoria/wire-desktop/).

dnf copr enable conoria/wire-desktop

See also: #819 https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/pull/819

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[ghost]

@ConorIA

Confirmed. Working on Fedora 26 Workstation.

[ghost]

@ConorIA

There's also the Flatpak way to distribute software : http://flatpak.org/

[ConorIA]

@1Claude ... you're killing me. That's one for another time! But you're right. For now AppImage is a good "one size fits all" solution, but Flatpak (and dare I say "snaps") are probably going to be in higher demand soon.

[ghost]

Has there been any progress in terms of getting a rpm repository directly from the wire.com team ?
The copr repo works for now, but i would feel much safer if there was a direkt way of distribution. A deb repo is already availible and it seems to be no big problem to package it.

[DetlevCM]

It is 2020 now and there hasn't been any development it seems...

While the AppImage version runs under openSUSE (also rpm based), it requires me to re-download the package every once in a while (basically when I feel I want to manually check if there is a new version) and then download it to use it...

Providing an rpm repository would allow for automatic updates. I understand that it is not necessarily possible to offer a dedicated version for every Linux distribution, however offering a generic package for rpm distributions in general should be possible when a debian package is offered.

Effectively, the developers are only providing a crutch for users of rpm-based distributions which is a bit of a shame.