[CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??

[Sorin Srbu]

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> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Nux!
> Sent: den 7 april 2016 11:29
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
> 
> Very nice, it probably has to do with http://appimage.org/
> So the appimage did not work on EL6?
> 
> Anyway, hope to see more apps like this. :-)
> Big win for the users usability wise, not sure how security will be
impacted.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>
> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, 7 April, 2016 10:02:42
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
> 
> >> > >>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial
> >> > >>> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to
> > find the
> >> > >> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them.
> >> > >
> >> > > So what's the easy way?
> >> > > Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O
> >
> > Just a heads-up;
> >
> > I just installed CentOS 7 x64 on a test machine to try stuff out at
work.
> > Went to openshot.org to download Openshot, and noticed they now have
> > appimages.
> > Just chmod +x the appimage-file and run it.
> >
> > Worked like a charm on C7!
> > It was really fast as well, compared to running the previous version on
> > CentOS 6.
> >
> > I might have to upgrade to CentOS 7 at home too... 8-}

You tell me.
In any case, I'm not that used to apps that "just work" while working with
linux!

I too hope to see more of this, especially on those softwares with
dependencies that are sometimes hard to fulfill.

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//Sorin