Flatpak

[Rett]

Are there any plans to release Plastic as a Flatpak? This would make it significantly easier for your team to package it, rather than doing one per supported distro. It also makes it easier for users, just install from Flathub rather than needing to mess with adding repos.

 

Plastic hasn't worked on any of the distros I've tried, all had official installation instructions and are supposed to be supported. Flatpak/Flathub would make it significantly easier.

[calbzam]

Hi,

What are the distros where you are facing the installation problems? We don't have any known issue regarding the supported distros:

https://www.plasticscm.com/plastic-for-linux

Regards,

Carlos.

[dacanizares]

Hi,

We're using Arch Linux, especifically Manjaro, but there's no package for that. A flatpack or an appimage could help us in those cases.

Regards,

Daniel

[Padman]

Hi,

I totally agree with @dacanizares

It's really a pain to convert all the deb packages to arch linux packages.

And what's more, Arch based distros are more and more used.

In my case, my game studio is developing games for Steam. And Valve has now choosen Arch Linux to power SteamOS 3 and we develop our games from Arch based distros.

So using latest package technologies is a must have. FlatPack and AppImage has been developped for these reasons : (For dev) No matter the distros you can easily deploy on any linux system with only one package builder. (For users) No matter the distros you can install any linux app easliy.

Benefits for all. Please consider this.

 

Thank you.

[Achilleas90]

I have the exact same problem. We are a team using Unity to develop in Arch based Manjaro and I can't use plastic scm. We fully developed a game using collaborate on Unity before and now we are just locked out. I would be great if there was a FlatPack, an AppImage or a Snap.

[STRek]

it's a very awkward deal that happened here - not only Arch is not supported but even modern Ubuntu won't work! The whole linux support is a hoax, add the Unity bulk-deal to it and think about it. I smell desperation and a sinking ship.

[calbzam]

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it's a very awkward deal that happened here - not only Arch is not supported but even modern Ubuntu won't work! The whole linux support is a hoax, add the Unity bulk-deal to it and think about it. I smell desperation and a sinking ship.

Plastic is not available (or has been ever avilable) for Arch Linux but it properly works in Ubuntu (at least until Ubuntu 21).

Regards,

Carlos.

[Teles]

On 5/2/2022 at 12:26 PM, calbzam said:

Plastic is not available (or has been ever avilable) for Arch Linux but it properly works in Ubuntu (at least until Ubuntu 21).

Regards,

Carlos.

I'm trying to install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (latest release) and it's not working... here is the terminal 

 

 

[Padman]

10 hours ago, Teles said:

I'm trying to install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (latest release) and it's not working... here is the terminal 

 

 

Yes... It's because Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now using upper version of plasticscm dependencies... PlasticSCM team needs to upgrade the dependencies. So, sorry @calbzam but again, if you used FlatPak, this kind of issue will no longer happen. Here is a proof from the official FlatPak documentation (https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/dependencies.html) :

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One of the key advantages of Flatpak is that it allows application authors to bundle whatever libraries or dependencies that they want. This means that developers aren’t constrained by which libraries are available through Linux distributions.

So please, again, consider using FlatPak for package delivery. It will be appreciated also by Ubuntu users.

Thank you.

[calbzam]

Thanks for the update. We are aware of the issues with Ubuntu 22. Hopefully we can provide a woraround soon.

Sorry for the inconveniences,

Carlos.

[Mark Morris]

Any update on the Ubuntu 22 issue? having to revert back to windows 10, really dont want to do that.

[Sygan]

On 5/2/2022 at 5:26 PM, calbzam said:

Plastic is not available (or has been ever avilable) for Arch Linux but it properly works in Ubuntu (at least until Ubuntu 21).

Hey, 

That's not really fully correct. It was never officially supported but I've been using PlasticSCM on arch-based Jenkins docker in my build server machine. I did it with the help of this topic - 

My issue is that I cannot find the linux binaries for Plastic in downloads page anymore. Is there any way to get those binaries? 

[calbzam]

Hi @Sygan,

I'm afraid we don't provide binaries for Linux installation anymore. But you should be able to download them from the following links:

https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-client-core.tar.gz

https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-gtkplastic.tar.gz

https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-theme.tar.gz

Please let us know if it helps.

Regards,

Carlos.

 

[Marco Betschart]

Hey there,

I ran into the same thing: Using Arch, unable to install Linux Plastic SCM. Therefore, I support the idea of one cross-distro compatible Flatpak packaging format instead of using distro specific *.deb, *.rpm, etc.

@calbzam wondering, if there is anything like this on the roadmap?

[calbzam]

Hi,

Sorry, I'm afraid it's not currently in the roadmap to provide support for more Linux distros. 

The Plastic GUI doesn't depend on "mono" anymore. @Marco Betschart are you planning to install the Plastic client or server? We can try to assist you to install it via the above .tar.gz.

Regards,

Carlos.

[Marco Betschart]

@calbzam sorry, for some reason didn't got a notification. I'm still trying to install Plastic client to manage repos stored on Unity Version Control. Any hints on how to properly install a current version under Arch would be appreciated.

[calbzam]

Hi,

The problem is we don't currently have an official zip/tar.gz installer for Linux. You will need to use these three links:

https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-client-core.tar.gz 
https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-gtkplastic.tar.gz 
https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-theme.tar.gz 

 
If you just need the CLI, this one should be enough (you can edit the version but use the same link format):
https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-client-core.tar.gz
 

Regards,

Carlos.

[Fabiano]

On 4/13/2023 at 12:16 PM, calbzam said:

https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-client-core.tar.gz 
https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-gtkplastic.tar.gz 
https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.7134/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.7134-linux-theme.tar.gz 

Hi Carlos,

thank you so much for providing these links. I was still able to use Plastic SCM on Manjaro with the links you provided, but I've just tried to check some files in and it seems like I need the latest version to be able to do it.
So I tried to download the same 3 zip files but putting the latest version numbers in their links.
I managed to download the client-core and the theme, but not the gtk.

I've also tried putting a few of the latest versions numbers in the second link, grabbing them from the releases page: https://www.plasticscm.com/download/previous but no one seems to work.

Would you mind checking if the gtk is available please?

[calbzam]

Hi Fabiano, The "gtk" package no longer exists, it was deprecated some time ago. It is now called "gui".

Here is an example link: https://plastic-releases.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/11.0.16.8845/plasticscm/linux/PlasticSCM-11.0.16.8845-linux-client-gui.tar.gz

There are plans to release Plastic on Linux with flatpak, but we don't have a specific date.