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Does the legacy of AppOutlet live on? (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I noticed the AppOutlet repo has been archived, but I really liked the idea of one store to rule them all (I.e. snaps, appimages, flatpaks, etc. in one place).

Any current recommendations for an alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You won't find any alternatives because Flatpak has won the war. Pretty much everyone (except Canonical) hates Snap and avoids it like the plague, and AppImages have significantly dropped in popularity amongst users due to the rise of Flatpak, and the various advantage it has over AppImages. So you're left with only Flatpak/Flathub basically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

In that case, any one stop shop on Arch that will search the Arch repo, the AUR, and Flathub?

[–] cocolopez 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

You can try Bauh.

github

It manage appimages, flatpaks, snaps, AUR and repos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the link. That sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I like the integration with Timeshift and the into packed interface with ability to click on details. On the downside, the themes are limited and it's kind of hard to use for browsing apps that you might want to install.

[–] Deckweiss 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I am using pamac-all on archlinux, which is kind of like that. It works only on arch linux afaik. It has the repos, AUR, flatpak, and snap support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. After getting some weird behavior with Appimage Launcher and reading this reddit thread, I decided to install pamac-flatpak from the AUR, but plan on leaving AUR dissabled on the app. So far so good. I think it's a keeper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

KDE Discover supports Snap, Flatpak and distro packages (through PackageKit). It doesn't support AppImage, though. It also doesn't work very well outside of Plasma.