Desktop clients - Windows, MacOS and Linux

[trymeouteh]

Please create a Obtainium client for the desktop to download apps on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Would be nice to be able to download these types of packages on each operating system.

• Windows
  • EXEs/MSIs
  • Portable Apps
• MacOS
  • DMG
• Linux
  • Portable (Bare Metal)
  • AppImage

Glad the app is written in Flutter to make such as thing easier, not having to build another app from scratch. However a CLI version on desktop would be nice as.

[ImranR98]

I think this is out of scope for Obtainium as far as I'm concerned. I would accept a PR if it was well thought out and didn't add too much additional OS-specific code that needs to be maintained (but I'm not sure that's doable).

[2gn]

An iOS build would be nice, since installing apps from third-party app store is now possible (in EU and Japan).

[playagain96]

It's a really cool idea, cause a lot of desktop opensource apps don't update themselves

[Nichtraucher]

The Komi Store has risen in popularity recently. It has clients for those three OS' plus Android.

[tsyche]

ok so it's not a GUI client, but here's a CLI brew companion for the unmanaged case I recently shipped (e.g. no formula, or abandoned/lagging tap).

Installs from GH releases via a config list, if the app ships one. Binaries, .app bundles, AppImages. macOS + Linux/WSL; Windows is planned.
https://github.com/tsyche/untapped

[2gn]

I think you should use package managers for their own platforms. For Windows there's winget, for macos homebrew. On linux you could use eget.

[tsyche]

Agreed. I just made untapped for apps with dead formulas, unmaintained taps, projects that only ship release assets, etc. On Android that layer has Obtainium; on the desktop it was curl/tar and a note I eventually will lose.

The goal when i started was obtainium's model but simple, for your terminal: one conf for the stragglers, one command installs and upgrades.

[livrasand]

With the permission of this repo's author, I created Updainium—inspired by Obtainium—for Windows, Mac, and Linux; feel free to check it out and leave feedback.

https://github.com/livrasand/Updainium

[ImranR98]

With the permission of this repo's author

I haven't given any such permission as far as I know. Please link me to the relevant comment if I'm mistaken.

But you don't really need "permission" since it's an independent project (or fork, haven't checked). Just want to make sure people don't have the wrong impression in thinking they're associated.

[livrasand]

@ImranR98 Oh no, it’s a language mix-up—I’m sorry, my primary language is Spanish. We usually say "with the administrator's permission" to ask for authorization—something like saying "if the administrator doesn't mind." Thanks for the clarification, and I apologize for the confusion.