Packages for other distributions

[thebaer]

Right now we only have packages made for Debian-based distros. I'd like to let everyone get auto-updating packages on their distro.

[SamWhited]

I have packaged this for Arch and put it in the Arch User Repository, you can find it here:

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/writeas-gtk/
• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/writeas-cli/

If you'd like to see this in the community repo eventually, please vote for it on the AUR and hopefully I'll be able to convince one of the real packagers to pick it up. Thanks for creating such a great tool!

[thebaer]

Awesome! I'll add this to the site and ask others to vote for it as well. Thank you!

[bugaevc]

Requesting a Flatpak :)

[dogmax]

You should consider releasing it as an AppImage, like Krita and MuseScore etc have done.

It's super easy for both users and you.

It runs on all distributions as is. No extras required.

https://appimage.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZ6Ikc7juw

[ejstacey]

Flatpak is probably the way to go these days, but I thought I'd drop the rpm spec file I created. Works on my fedora 42 system.

Name:       writeas-gtk
Version:    2025.09.14
Release:    1%{?dist}
Summary:    WriteAs GTK Client
License:    GPL

BuildRequires: meson ninja-build gtksourceview3-devel gtk3-devel vala

%description
Write.as GTK desktop app

%global debug_package %{nil}

%prep
git clone https://github.com/writeas/writeas-gtk.git %{name}-%{version}
cd %{name}-%{version}
git submodule update --init

%build
cd %{name}-%{version}
%meson
%meson_build

%install
cd %{name}-%{version}
%meson_install

%check
cd %{name}-%{version}
%meson_test

%files
%defattr(0644, -, -, 0755)
%attr(0755, -, -) /usr/bin/writeas-gtk
/usr/share/applications/writeas-gtk.desktop
/usr/share/metainfo/writeas-gtk.appdata.xml
/usr/share/fonts-lora/SIL\ Open\ Font\ License.txt
/usr/share/fonts/lora/Lora-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/lora/Lora-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/lora/Lora-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/lora/Lora-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/writeas-gtk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/writeas-gtk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/writeas-gtk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/writeas-gtk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/writeas-gtk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/writeas-gtk.png


%changelog
* Sun Sep 14 2025 Eric Stacey <ejstacey@joyrex.net>
- Initial RPM build