Huge shootout to the Distrobox devs, you saved my day :)

I brew beer as a hobby. I’ve been using Joliebulle 3 for close to 10 years because it’s FOSS and super simple to use, and I’m too lazy to switch to another brewing app. It’s been unmaintained for almost 5 years, but it wonderfully does exactly what I want from a brewing software. I was missing this crucial “piece of equipment” since I migrated to Fedora.

Brew day is tomorrow. I forgot to look into it until it was almost too late.

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    Does it not run on Fedora? You could probably use alien to convert the deb to an rpm. Or just unpack the tgz on github and run it: https://github.com/314r/joliebulle/releases/tag/3.7.3

    It looks like there’s also a version 4 that’s still FOSS that I assume would be targeted to new platforms. But I only know enough French to get the gist of their site, I don’t know the more technical words to figure out what’s changed.

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      1 year ago

      I had a quick look at the PKGSRC on AUR. It uses QtWebKit which is the biggest stumbling block, given that most or perhaps even all distributions killed that for security reasons. I recently found out that an “AI and automation” company forked and revived QtWebKit, so there is a tiny chance distros will package it again but don’t hold your breath. There was a promising fork once and I’d guess there will be an attitude by packagers that they’ve fallen for a fork before and that never got off the ground.

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      I tried running the tgz a few months ago. It needed a shitload of deprecated python dependancies, I’m not well versed in python so after the 10th pip install I gave up.

      Version 4 is unfortunately closed source and paid.