Please provide OpenBoard as AppImage/Snap/Flatpack for Linux

[Guex]

dear maintainers

many thanks for this great open source tool, but please provide it in a more usable way than the outdated .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian. I cannot install it on the new Ubuntu 20.04 without solving dependencies manually by picking ffmpeg, openssl and others from previous releases.

I have the capability to do that, but it's also a question if i want to do these package hacks. It's also far away of being user friendly and it hinders the adoption and reach to bigger user base.

As the title says, i'd recommend to provide it in format which is portable across multiple Linux distributions and version.

many thanks
Guex

[maehne]

OpenBoard is already available as a Flatpak:

https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/ch.openboard.OpenBoard

[kaamui]

And an up-to-date package has been released this morning for Ubuntu 20.04 👍

https://github.com/OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard/releases/tag/v1.6.0a1

[Seluba]

The website should perhaps refer to the Flatpak. Others may be smarter, but I had to come here to find out that there was a Flatpak. Nice work btw!

[dmsoler]

Just contributed a working recipe to generate an AppImage using pkg2appimage, see its pull #422 Tested and working on Debian Sid.

[colombojrj]

Still waiting for AppImage package! Please distribute an AppImage! I want to use it in my gentoo!!!

[letsfindaway]

see above, there is a flatpak maintained by a community member: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/ch.openboard.OpenBoard