Photivo app - or containers

maz

hi, the one app im struggling without is photivo, which pretty much only works well on arch or as an RPM. if i could run it on solus or if anyone has a suggestion that might get it working, I could move to solus entirely. is there any way to get this running or anyway to get a container working? I've installed distrobox, put its failing everytime to download fedora 38 or 39 (my connections sluggish but its enough to do the same thing in tumbleweed) and boxbuddy doesn't think distrobox its installed at all. any suggestions would be highly appreciated or any amazingly clever way to compile that app on solus as an intermediate user (can install arch and follow instructions, but no programming knowledge)

alfisya

Is this the app you are talking about ?

alfisya

The easiest way is just make pakcage request on github and wait for it to be approved. The thing is photivo doesn't have proper versioning and that can be problematic to be included in Solus repository.

You can compile it yourself following the Arch PKGBUILD, If you are familiar with compiling program yourself. Though you will still miss one dependency that Solus doesn't have : liblqr.

For my curiosity sake , I made .eopkg for all this myself (just now), just to test if all this works and it works. You can try following Solus packaging guide and build all this yourself. Here is the recipe/package.yml for liblqr :

name       : liblqr
version    : 0.4.2
release    : 1
source     :
    - http://liblqr.wdfiles.com/local--files/en:download-page/liblqr-1-0.4.2.tar.bz2 : 173a822efd207d72cda7d7f4e951c5000f31b10209366ff7f0f5972f7f9ff137
homepage   : http://liblqr.wikidot.com/
license    :
    - GPL-3.0-or-later
    - LGPL-3.0-or-later
component  : programming.library
summary    : Liquid Rescale library
description: |
    The LiquidRescale (lqr) library provides a C/C++ API for performing non-uniform resizing of images by the seam-carving technique.
setup      : |
    %configure_no_runstatedir
build      : |
    %make
install    : |
    %make_install

and this for photivo :

name       : photivo
version    : '20231208'
release    : 1
source     :
    - git|https://bitbucket.org/Photivo/photivo.git : 259d0ae494e145a42e2e538b034f445496dc9e77
homepage   : https://photivo.org/
license    : GPL-3.0-or-later
component  : multimedia.graphics
summary    : Free and open source photo processor
description: |
    Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor. It handles your RAW files as well as your bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destr>
builddeps  :
    - pkgconfig(GraphicsMagick)
    - pkgconfig(Qt5Core)
    - pkgconfig(exiv2)
    - pkgconfig(fftw3)
    - pkgconfig(lcms2)
    - pkgconfig(lensfun)
    - pkgconfig(libjpeg)
    - pkgconfig(lqr-1)
    - pkgconfig(libraw)
setup      : |
    %cmake_ninja
build      : |
    %ninja_build
install    : |
    %ninja_install

There is also a way to hack an .rpm or .deb file to work on Solus, but I am not familiar with it. Cheers !