Add .deb installer on https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/

[Wallby]

Description
ChromeOS (Flex) supports installing from .deb, but flatpack and snap are not native to ChromeOS. Thus it seems quite major to release a .deb binary.

[Wallby]

As a workaround, I currently downloaded the .deb from https://pkgs.org/download/pinta.

[Wallby]

As a workaround, I currently downloaded the .deb from https://pkgs.org/download/pinta.

Nevermind, apparently that is a very old version (1.6)

[cameronwhite]

Does https://xtradeb.net/apps/pinta/ work for you? That is a community-built .deb package

[Wallby]

@cameronwhite Well an official .deb would be preferred, instead of having to research some unknown (to me) website.

[Wallby]

@cameronwhite Also that website seems to only allow setting up a repository, not download the .deb directly? I don't know whether ChromeOS even has repositories, if it does it is well hidden and not something I want to try. Double clicking a .deb file is however well supported in the GUI.

[cameronwhite]

I'm not familiar with ChromeOS so I'm not sure about the answer there. I assume it would be possible since repositories enable updates to the .deb packages..

There are no plans for us to add an official upstream .deb package, since packaging for specific Linux distributions involves a lot of maintenance that we don't have the time for versus developing Pinta itself.

[JGCarroll]

Apt repo's are HTTP repositories, you can download the Xtradeb package directly if you know where/how to find it.

Funnily enough, Xtradeb appears to be a launchpad PPA in the backend, so the direct download for the package is here:
https://launchpad.net/~xtradeb/+archive/ubuntu/apps/+files/pinta_2.1.2-1xtradeb2.2404.1_all.deb

This also means you get all the benefits of this being a PPA, the build is done on Canonical servers with audit history on the repository. This means it's basically the same as what Cameron would be able to offer as a PPA, with the major difference being, you're trusting Johny instead (who I've seen around here, and has clearly being doing this a long time, and is very commited to it).

I do also believe the Flatpak is natively supported for ChromeOS when using the Linux developer environment natively supported in ChromeOS. I believe snap runs too, but might require installing an extra package on top of snapd itself to enable squashfs support in userspace.