📦 Stores and Package Managers

Question

📦 Stores and Package Managers

hacdias opened this issue 6 years ago · 26 comments

Summary

Many users want to see IPFS Desktop binaries distributed across many stores and package managers. This issue will be used to address those and new requests should be done here for now.

Status

Package Manager	Status	How to
Homebrew (macOS)	🐓	`brew cask install ipfs`
Chocolatey (Windows)	🐓	`choco install ipfs-desktop`
Scoop (Windows)	🐓	`scoop bucket add extras && scoop install ipfs-desktop` package maintained by @NatoBoram
WinGet (Windows)	❔
PPA Ubuntu/Debian	❔
Flatpak	❔
Snap	🐓	`snap install ipfs-desktop`
AUR	🐓	package maintained by @alexhenrie
App Store (macOS)	❔

❔ : Status unknown
🐣 : Work in progress
🐓 : Published

omnicortex commented 21 days ago

+1

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Answer 1 · 2018-11-14T20:55:47.000Z

I'd also add snaps (https://snapcraft.io) to the list as it's also a fairly common distribution method and can be easily integrated (https://build.snapcraft.io)

Answer 2 · 2018-11-26T12:23:51.000Z

homebrew pls! - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Answer 3 · 2018-11-26T15:27:39.000Z

This feels like a good opportunity to improve community involvement.

When v1.0 is ready we (or Package Managers WG) should reach out to current maintainers of existing go-ipfs packages and ask them for help with adding ipfs-desktop one:

https://repology.org/metapackages/?search=ipfs&maintainer=&category=&inrepo=&notinrepo=&repos=&families=&repos_newest=&families_newest=

Answer 4 · 2019-02-22T18:08:10.000Z

+ we should provide prebuilt standalone .deb and .rpm as best-effort approach to cover remaining Linux distros.

Answer 5 · 2019-03-17T22:24:17.000Z

Brew cask just added as ipfs. See the PR for why it is not ipfs-desktop.

brew cask install ipfs for everyone.

Answer 6 · 2019-06-06T00:17:53.000Z

Note that we now provide a generic Tar package (.tar.xz) for Linux.
It should make packaging for a specific distro easier (no need for manual build).

Answer 7 · 2019-09-20T06:04:23.000Z

Might someone add and maintain a port for FreeBSD?

We have https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ipfs-go/ for IPFS implementation in Go, but no port for IPFS Desktop.

Answer 8 · 2019-10-18T00:18:48.000Z

Nixpkgs, or just a nix file in the repo. 1 complication for this is the difficulty in setting up an Electron package at the moment. The unorthodox directory structure makes it difficult build normally.

Answer 9 · 2020-04-28T23:25:48.000Z

It's available via scoop here.

ScoopInstaller/Extras#1597

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install ipfs-desktop

Answer 10 · 2020-06-15T21:10:53.000Z

Could someone add WinGet to the list of package managers? It's still in active development, but I feel like Microsoft is going to make a larger push for it in the future.

Answer 11 · 2020-07-02T16:43:26.000Z

I cannot find support Gentoo (portage) yet.

Answer 12 · 2020-10-13T14:43:22.000Z

Could consider storing the installation files (.exe, .dmg, .tar.gz) in IPFS instead of Github storage?

Answer 13 · 2020-10-22T18:06:53.000Z

@agnelvishal definitely, but we need to migrate autoupdate mechanizm to support that first – see my notes in #1263 (comment)

Answer 14 · 2021-01-24T13:57:19.000Z

Flatpak would be nice!

Answer 15 · 2021-01-24T16:55:47.000Z

Looks like I was completely ignored even thought winget was added to the list. Here's a reminder that I commented.

It's available via scoop here.

lukesampson/scoop-extras#1597
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install ipfs-desktop

It's important to not discriminate package managers. If this issue is not taken seriously, then please consider closing it.

Answer 16 · 2021-01-24T17:39:27.000Z

@NatoBoram added to the list!

Answer 17 · 2021-01-25T18:00:07.000Z

@NatoBoram - note that Scoop has been listed in the docs at https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-desktop/#package-managers for a while now. Will update CLI instructions per your comment under ipfs/ipfs-docs#615.

Answer 18 · 2021-04-27T07:29:39.000Z

There seems to be a package for WinGet now: https://winget.run/pkg/IPFS/IPFS-Desktop

Answer 19 · 2021-05-02T22:53:37.000Z

Macports (macOS) has an ipfs package: https://ports.macports.org/port/ipfs/summary

I'm guessing it's just the CLI (not the Desktop), but should be on the list

Answer 20 · 2021-05-05T01:09:05.000Z

I'm closing this and suggest that people just open a PR against "Install" section of README so it can be discovered by others with more ease :)

Answer 21 · 2021-05-06T04:33:34.000Z

Added MacPorts in PR #1816

WinGet is still missing; I haven't used Windows since XP, so I'll leave that for someone more familiar.
Maybe @FireMasterK ?

Answer 22 · 2022-04-09T05:57:39.000Z

why there is no a Flatpak package? nor RPM (fedora)? any plans?

Answer 23 · 2024-02-29T07:37:55.000Z

Hello,
Why was this closed ?
There's currently no package manager support whatsoever for Debian-based distros (APT/PPA/Flatpak/Snap).
Thanks

Answer 24 · 2024-02-29T19:13:02.000Z

I currently use the AppImage on Manjaro and it is very, very much a less than ideal experience. Trying to get it to consistently autostart when I login seems to be impossible. A Flatpak would be very much appreciated.

Answer 25 · 2024-09-02T00:34:48.000Z

Hi,

A few months ago, I started developing a tool named dynapt to automatically fetch updates through APT for packages that don't provide an APT repository.

As I've been upgrading IPFS Desktop through it for quite some time now, I just published my first pre-release of it, which you can download and set up from this tutorial.

For IPFS Desktop specifically, replace the following configuration line :

    "apps": []

With the following :

    "apps": [
        {
            "name": "IPFS Desktop",
            "github": {
                "repo": "ipfs/ipfs-desktop"
            }
        }
    ]

For questions or issues, please submit a comment on the tutorial page.

Thanks