I hate packaging my software for Linux
I hate packaging my software for Linux All I wanted was, to make Fresh easy to install, for everybody, everywhere - how hard can it be?!Windows and macOS aren't so bad, because they're relatively uniform. For Windows, I use winget - ugly, but works (once I got past the initial headache). For macOS, I'm using homebrew for now, which isn't ideal, but it wasn't hard to set up.
- ▪I hate packaging my software for Linux All I wanted was, to make Fresh easy to install, for everybody, everywhere - how hard can it be?!Windows and macOS aren't so bad, because they're relatively uniform.
- ▪For Windows, I use winget - ugly, but works (once I got past the initial headache).
- ▪For macOS, I'm using homebrew for now, which isn't ideal, but it wasn't hard to set up.
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| Original publisher | Getfresh |
| Canonical URL | https://getfresh.dev/docs/blog/packaging-for-linux/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:33:48 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-12T12:11:35.809Z |
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I hate packaging my software for Linux All I wanted was, to make Fresh easy to install, for everybody, everywhere - how hard can it be?!Windows and macOS aren't so bad, because they're relatively uniform. For Windows, I use winget - ugly, but works (once I got past the initial headache). For macOS, I'm using homebrew for now, which isn't ideal, but it wasn't hard to set up. I'll probably move to a more native signed mac app once I take the time to package it correctly. Both solutions work ok for modern Windows and macOS users.Linux is a different story. I started by releasing Fresh as an npm package.
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