Safenet as a debian package?

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Sorry for unearthing this old (and regular) topic, but I did read discussions about safenet on Debian which are now 3 years old :
https://forum.autonomi.community/search?q=debian

Then I had a look at https://packages.debian.org
but didn’t find anything with : maidsafe, safenet, or safe browser ?

Did I miss something ?

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I’m looking forward to this too … but suspect it won’t happen until beta.

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The official Debian repositories are often ancient. What I would like to see is a PPA for Ubuntu based systems, and maybe AUR for Arch. Ideally all Safenet related programs would be packaged and put in the PPA, thus facilitating automatic updating through apt-get, without having to check the forums for possibly updated packages. How do e.g. @Shane and @joshuef feel about this?

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As I understand it, the Safe Browser (and other related tools) already support deb, RPM, AppImage, apk, etc. Getting your app to use the Launchpad PPA is trivial, and I can’t see any reason why Maidsafe wouldn’t choose to support this.

The only reason why the tool isn’t yet available via package managers is because it isn’t officially live yet. I imagine once we go in to public beta, this will become a non-concern and it will be available via all popular package manager systems.

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I’m sure it will be so eventually. It would just be really nice to have the PPA now for easier testing. Not just the CMS, of course, but everything Safenet related.

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Got git?

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Yes, I have git.
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Some users trust their own skills in skimming through source code and ensuring it is trustworthy: They are comfortable pulling sources from git and build themselves.

Some users trust the code authors to ensure that their code is trustworthy: They are comfortable installing packages built by MaidSafe.

Some users trust an independent software distribution team in ensuring that MaidSafe code is trustworthy: They are comfortable installing packages built by their choice of operating system distribution.

For the latter groups, I suggest discussing packages at Maidsafe on a freedombox.org? - and for those in the very latter group I suggest to discuss at Getting maidsafe on the freedombox server - as this discussing seems to have turned into a comparison of approaches (despite intentions of the initial question)