Can you build binaries for Linux OSes?

[Lirk88]

• [ x ] I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
• [ x ] I've verified and i assure that I'm running yt-dlg 1.X.Y
• [ x ] I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
• [ x ] Searched bugtracker
• [ x ] I've read the FAQs file

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Question

Can you build binaries for Linux OSes? M.B. Snap/AppImage/Archived Package/DEB/RPM? Binary from this repository doesn't work on Ubuntu 22.04 with installed required python modules.

[oleksis]

Check the Releases section the yt-dlg asset or the Downloads section in the yt-dlg site

[DraconicNEO]

Check the Releases section the yt-dlg asset or the Downloads section in the yt-dlg site

Do you think it would be possible for this to support flatpak or appimage I think it will be better and easier if this app supported these distribution methods since they are significantly less convoluted and broken than the current install method for Linux.

[Gr3q]

I don't have time to test, but here is some help for Flatpak

Relevant flatpak docs:

• https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html
• https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/python.html

You probably need to build the requirements:
python3 flatpak-pip-generator --requirements-file=requirements.txt, it will output extra modules to python3-yt-dlg.json. I know you don't have a requirements.txt but I'm sure flatpak-pip-generator has something alternative.

Flatpak manifest that might work excluding the extra work that the dependencies might need (like wxpython...I'm sure you'll have issues with that).

app-id: org.flatpak.yt-dlg
runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform
runtime-version: '22.08'
sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk
command: yt-dlg
modules:
   # this file is generated with flatpak-pip-generator
   - python3-yt-dlg.json
   name: yt-dlg
   buildsystem: simple
   build-commands:
     - pip3 install --prefix=/app --no-deps .
   sources:
     - type: archive
       url: https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui/archive/refs/tags/v1.8.5.tar.gz
       sha256: 8b1f9815857228a002680e2f64fc421055098c6dcfed6f6be17274b0cf45ca4a