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Update notifications in Debian Jessie

Sep 7, 2015By Matthias

Piwik told me that people are still sharing my post about the state of GNOME-Software and update notifications in Debian Jessie. So I thought it might be useful to publish a small update on that matter: If you are usingRead more…

Sep 7, 2015Matthias 23 comments

AppStream/DEP-11 for everyone! (beta!)

Aug 11, 2015By Matthias

One of the things we discussed at this year’s Akademy conference is making AppStream work on Kubuntu. On Debian-based systems, we use a YAML-based implementation of AppStream, called “DEP-11”. DEP-11 exists for historical reasons (the DEP-11 YAML format was aRead more…

Aug 11, 2015Matthias 5 comments

Akademy 2015

Aug 10, 2015By Matthias

I am very late with this, but I still wanted to write a few words about Akademy 2015. First of all: It was an awesome conference! Meeting all the great people involved with KDE and seeing who I am workingRead more…

Aug 10, 2015Matthias 1 comment

Limba Project: Another progress report

Mar 30, 2015By Matthias

And once again, it’s time for another Limba blogpost 🙂 Limba is a solution to install 3rd-party software on Linux, without interfering with the distribution’s native package manager. It can be useful to try out different software versions, use newerRead more…

Mar 30, 2015Matthias 7 comments

AppStream 0.8 released!

Jan 27, 2015By Matthias

Yesterday I released version 0.8 of AppStream, the cross-distribution standard for software metadata, that is currently used by GNOME-Software, Muon and Apper in to display rich metadata about applications and other software components.  What’s new? The new release contains someRead more…

Jan 27, 2015Matthias 0 Comments

How to build a cross-distro package with Limba

Dec 2, 2014By Matthias

Disclaimer: Limba is still in a very early stage of development. Bugs happen, and I give to guarantees on API stability yet. Limba is a very simple cross-distro package installer, utilizing OverlayFS found in recent Linux kernels (>= 3.18). AsRead more…

Dec 2, 2014Matthias 2 comments

Introducing Limba – a software installer experiment

Nov 10, 2014By Matthias

As some of you already know, since the larger restructuring in PackageKit for the 1.0 release, I am rethinking Listaller, the 3rd-party application installer for Linux systems, as well. During the past weeks, I was playing around with a lotRead more…

Nov 10, 2014Matthias 16 comments

The state of AppStream/GNOME-Software in Debian Jessie

Nov 6, 2014By Matthias

… or “Why do I not see any update notifications on my brand-new Debian Jessie installation??” This is a short explanation of the status quo, and also explains the “no update notifications” issue in a slightly more detailed way, sinceRead more…

Nov 6, 2014Matthias 10 comments

Listaller + Glick: Some new ideas

Oct 10, 2014By Matthias

As you might know, due to invasive changes in PackageKit, I am currently rewriting the 3rd-party application installer Listaller. Since I am not the only one looking at the 3rd-party app-installation issue (there is a larger effort going on atRead more…

Oct 10, 2014Matthias 4 comments

Listaller: Back to the future!

Sep 11, 2014By Matthias

It is time for another report on Listaller, the cross-distro 3rd-party package installer, which is now in development for – depending how you count – 5-6 years. This will become a longer post, so you might grab some coffee orRead more…

Sep 11, 2014Matthias 9 comments
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