Sure you can do that. For me, I welcome the flatpak packaging. Despite
being a very experienced UNIX user forever, I often find difficulties
arise with all the prerequisites required to be installed, especially
the Qt aspects, which often mess up. Flatpak frees one from these issues.
I understand exactly why you don't like flatpak and the particular type
of bloat it introduces. And also, Canonical have recently forced it off
Ubuntu and Ubuntu flavours in favour of snap, which I personally think
is much worse. But it's the way the world is going as the big plus is
that it makes it much simpler for developers to support many more linux
distros without burning needless energy. I have decided to roll over go
with the flow and just install flatpak and enjoy the convenience, if not
the bloat/etc.
Just my view. I imagine over time Wilbert and the Frescobaldi developers
will release exclusively with flatpak. Although I don't know their
plans, that may well happen, making it harder to do a manually crafted
install.
Andrew
On 10/04/2023 8:32 am, Knute Snortum wrote:
Is there a reason I shouldn't install Frescobaldi from the tar.gz file
in the release page? That's what I've been doing. I don't want to set
up Flatpack on my Ubuntu system.
