Nextcloud ready-to-deploy packages

[JasonBayton]

This is being discussed to death on the forum, I don’t think we need a new topic - have a look here:

Linux distribution packages for the desktop clients - help out!

So. We’ve got a branded client in this repo: And it can be built for Linux, we’ll do Windows and Mac! RC’s are already up on https://nextcloud.com/install/ and awaiting your feedback. Who’s in for some testing & package building? Here are instructions for moving your accounts over provided by @nickvergessen

Will Nextcloud be "inviting" to distribution packages?

ownCloud has been famous for being hostile against downstream (Fedora, Debian). Especially since Jos is still on board: Would you still consider to threaten downstream with trademarks? Or will Nextcloud follow a different agenda and be “inviting” to downstream users and downstream developers? I’m quite interested in this topic since we are running an ownCloud instance for a nonprofit organization. Since everything is run by volunteers, we do not have the resources to upgrade to new versions th…

How can we get packages together? Maybe by lowering ambitions

So, a lot of people do ask for packages. And I understand the advantage, I’d appreciate them myself, too. But it is hard to do packaging right and we’ve had trouble with that in the past and we prefer distributions to pick this up for now. Perhaps there is a solution: let’s be less ambitious. We provide only the simplest, bare-bones packages: just a tarball in a RPM or Deb with version number. No complicated upgrade fu, no dependencies, nothing like that. So a single package works on all dist…

Debian installation package

Hi, ownCloud has dedicated install packages and a package server, will we get this for nextcloud, too? I want to try it out, see how it grows and what has changed since July, but I don’t want to configure an hour before to start

Stable debian repository

I believe that the Nextcloud team have said that, for the time being, they will not be doing packaging and distribution for Nextcloud. They hope that the distributions will pick it up themselves, because it was too much work last time, taking the team’s time away from developing the core platform itself. Nextcloud is pretty easy to install on Debian as compared to using a repo (or .deb) - all you do different is that you have to manually extract to your /var/www directory and edit the config fil…

Nextcloud client installation on Linux is inconvenient

Oops still day dreaming… sorry. Yeah on the client side, that kind of package is needed. I hope the snap devs maybe releasing a snap for the client also, they already made great process on the server side. And snapd can run on many distributions now so that is nice.