a ppa for this would be great. iāve never made a ppa before but failed on compiling my first attempt for the nextcloud client so I will need to fight with this some-more
if someone who has created ppaās before could set one up that would be fantastic though
I would prefer an official one.
Iāve spent a little bit of time reading over the generic Ubuntu guide for building a deb, though as the client is a little bit of NC and a lot of OC, Iām struggling to understand how Iād successfully follow this guide: http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html
Should anyone from the dev team fancy helping me to figure out where in the tree I need to be before running the packaging commands then Iām prepared to look into maintaining a PPA via launchpad for Ubuntu.
We donāt really have a packaging expert on board atmā¦ I know thereās the official documentation and I pointed to the deb sources on the open build server earlier - see here. Iām afraid I canāt do anything more 
That might be enough, I donāt knowā¦ but it looks like itās failing on the rules file when I try to build the deb.
I made a tar from the build_linux dir, and used that as the basis for the deb which may not have been correct. Maybe being able to merge any changes from the NC repo into an OC repo directly would allow me to more closely follow the documentation I find.
I am trying to build it with make before I attempt to build the deb. I am failing there you cann see my errors here http://pastebin.com/UWjP07Ty
Iāve built a deb with successfully, though using checkinstall rather than the official recommended method. @jospoortvliet should I make that available on the forum for the moment while I carry on figuring out the PPA stuff?
sweet! will you submit it to the archive?
Itās not a āproperā build, so I donāt think so. Now I have the checkinstall method working Iāll look to getting a deb built using the traditional approach and see how it goes. If I can build a deb perhaps I can an rpm for RHEL, Fedora & CentOS too. Getting ahead of myself though.
Before you submit it, perhaps provide it somewhere that some people can test it in different environments. Especially if you have doubts about the whole procedure.
Thereās also this dude - https://morph027.gitlab.io/post/nextcloud-install-via-packages-on-jessie/ perhaps he is interested in helping out.
Iāve had a time getting it to install on Debian 8. I followed the instructions here: Compile instructions from Reddit and got an error with the ācmakeā¦ā part of the steps. I ignored that and proceeded to make and make install. I think thatās basically the same procedure as on the Github instructions. Somewhere between make install and starting it from command line I got an error about libnextcloudsync.so.0, but then I found this lucky tip which fixed that issue. Error while loading shared libraries
So, all that being done I got it to run from the command line! It ran and syncedā¦and then I wanted to close the terminal I had opened so I didā¦and of course nextcloud quit with the terminal window.
So now Iām trying to set it to run at startup or something andā¦sheesh, Iām tired!
I love Nextcloud; I mean this is a seriously great endeavour. But compiling this beast on Debian 8 (lxde desktop) for a noob like myself is a daunting proposition!
Keep up the good work, and the better documentation!
https://www.c-rieger.de/how-to-install-nextcloud-desktop-client-for-ubuntu/
This tutorial works perfectly, itās not so hard to do 
Of course, a little sudo apt install nextcloud-client will be awesome
Iām using docker to build things and keep my system clean. Instructions and CI for xenial is here: https://gitlab.com/packaging/nextcloud-client/
Resulting repo: http://repo.morph027.de/nextcloud-client.php
Please note, that the PPA mentioned below is no longer maintained and will be removed soon.
It is replaced by the PPA named ppa:nextcloud-devs/client. You can start using this PPA by issuing the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nextcloud-devs/client
sudo apt-get update
You can remove the old PPA by:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ivaradi/nextcloud-client-ppa
Hello,
I have created a PPA for the Nextcloud client. It currently contains the packages for Ubuntu Trusty, Xenial and Yakkety. Install as follows:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ivaradi/nextcloud-client-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nextcloud-client
Please, let me know your results, and if it is useful or not.
Thanks very much for setting up this PPA! Iāve just used it to install the Nextcloud client on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS without any problems.
Amazing!
Could you share your methods of packaging the client and pushing to the PPA?
Linux Mint 18 Mate: Installation without problems, sync runs, default system icon in the menu, seems to be useful
Works great on Ubuntu 16.04!
works fine on my Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon, Thanks