Mark Galassi writes:
Has anyone here used nix or flatpak or snap either:
a) to install packages on your own system, or
b) to distribute your own packages
I tried to use flatpak to install the latest GIMP on Debian stable, where building GIMP would require building a lot of dependencies from source. It failed miserably -- segmentation fault (core dumped) whenever I tried to run it. I tried it on simpler packages like gedit and vim too, in case it was a problem with the GIMP package. I tried installing the flatpak and ostree from stretch-backports, and building the latest flatpak from source, but it didn't help -- it segfaulted no matter what I tried. stretch-backports didn't have debugging libraries with symbols so I was never able to get a stack trace to see where it was crashing. Flatpak works okay on Debian testing, but I don't need it there. Stable is where I wanted a way to run updated software even when the dependencies aren't up to date. I haven't tried nix or snap. ...Akkana