it has been a while since LL released their last Linux capable viewer. To get things started again I brought 6.3.6 up to Linux support: https://bitbucket.org/NickyD/viewer-linux https://bitbucket.org/NickyD/viewer-flatpak (for the flatpak build scripts)
As I know the chances to see a penguin fly are bigger than get a release from LL, I also created a flatpak that users can install and run (instructions below). I'm still pondering to make an AppImage from it, but that's something for another day. Differences in the Linux version: - Uses SDL2 rather than SDL (so the "OS" version can be used). - Uses GTK3 instead of GTK2, again to not have to compile the old GTK version. - OpenAL instead of FMODEX, there's no way to download FMODEX anymore. Once FMOD Studio gets into the viewer I add it to the Linux release. - No KDU. I obviously don't have access to LLs version of KDU and won't use the one I have for Firestorm. - GStreamer 1.0 instead of VLC. GStreamer being part of the OS it gets updated by the OS (Flatpak in this case) rather than shipping some ancient VLC version. - dullahan/CEF is added. So it got the usual web browser as Windows/OSX got. - It's obviously unsupported. The flatpak is hosted by The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc. ( https://www.firestormviewer.org/about/) but could easily hosted by any webserver or say AWS/S3. Installation: flatpak is needed and must be installed via the distros usual ways ( https://flatpak.org/setup/) Then the viewer can be installed either system or user specific: Add Flatpak repo - Systemwide: - flatpak remote-add viewer-builds https://flatpak.firestormviewer.org/viewer.flatpakrepo - User install - flatpak remote-add --user viewer-builds https://flatpak.firestormviewer.org/viewer.flatpakrepo Install viewer (it will give the option which branch, stable has the advantage that it can be updated as new released get added): - Systemwide: - flatpak install viewer-builds viewer-release - User install - flatpak install --user viewer-builds viewer-release Run the viewer - flatpak run org.lindenlab.viewer-release Cheers, Nicky
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