Solus Grocery Store

Some unofficial 3rd party packages for Solus OS. The idea of setting up such a repository is inspired by prateekmedia's work. A big shout-out to you if you're seeing this :)

This repository is an actual repository (i.e. the packages are built and uploaded to the cloud where they will get indexed in a cloud function and uploaded into a storage bucket), unlike previous attempts that used GitHub as a storage and required manual indexing. For more info on how this repository is architectured entirely on the cloud, please see the Architecture section.

I typically update these packages once a month, and will work on some aesthetic improvements later.

I just learned how to more formally package using solbuild, and will try to do some more re-builds when I have time.

Notable packages includes:

• aliyun-cli
• cascadia-code
• trezor-bridge
• microsoft-edge
• netease-cloud-music-gtk
• nix (for some reason, only the unstable channel works without issues, but that's more than enough for me)
• python-polars
• typora (the stable and paid version) and typora-beta
• wechat-uos (native WeChat for Linux! Though limitations apply)

Disclaimer

These packages are not official, they are neither supported nor endorsed by the official Solus devs. Do not ask for help in Solus's (or any other) help forum, instead create an issue here.

I do NOT have the source code for any of the proprietary software. The installation files are created by simply decompressing official the .deb installation file and copying/assigning its contents to the right location(s) your Solus system (this applies to Microsoft Edge). In fact, in order to install microsoft-edge, you have to convert it yourself. I don't provide the binary packages.

Installation Instructions

General

Paste the following into your terminal:

sudo eopkg ar Grocery https://repo-cdn.gzgz.dev/eopkg-index.xml.xz

I'm not too familiar with CDN settings, so if occasionally you get packages not found / cannot be downloaded errors, wait for a few hours (at most a day). This likely happened because the index file was refreshed but the new packages were not (yet).

Run eopkg la Grocery to see what packages are available.

Microsoft Edge (stable)

Make sure you properly install solbuild first. See here for instructions. You don't need to set up common. There's also no need to build against unstable.

If you feel like this is too much work, you might be better off using the Flatpak version. Note that they haven't added stable version yet, so it's only the dev version.

git clone https://gitlab.com/solus-grocery-store/solus-grocery-store --depth 1
cd solus-grocery-store/microsoft-edge
sudo solbuild build # This will build/convert the package
sudo eopkg it *.eopkg

Microsoft Edge (dev)

Not really maintained. Use the stable version.

sudo eopkg bi --ignore-safety https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GZGavinZhao/solus-grocery-store/main/msedge-dev/microsoft-edge-dev/pspec.xml && sudo eopkg it microsoft-edge-dev*.eopkg && sudo rm microsoft-edge-dev*.eopkg

NOTE: In order to use the latest sign-in and sync support for version 91.0.831.1 and above, after installation you might need to manually type edge://flags in the address bar, then search for and enable the "MSA sign in" experiment.

网易云音乐(NetEase Cloud Music)

Not really maintained. Use netease-cloud-music-gtk instead.

sudo eopkg bi --ignore-safety https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GZGavinZhao/solus-grocery-store/main/netease-cloud-music/ncm/pspec.xml && sudo eopkg it netease-cloud-music-1.2.1-1-1-x86_64.eopkg && sudo rm netease-cloud-music-1.2.1-1-1-x86_64.eopkg

注意事项： 复制粘贴干就完了。如果启动不了，提交issue，同时附上在terminal里面执行netease-cloud-music后的所有输出。

NOTE: This should work flawlessly, but it's possible that I am missing some dependencies. If you can't start it, execute netease-cloud-music and create an issue here with the warning/error messages, if any.

搜狗拼音(sogoupinyin)

别用，根本用不了…… 估计依赖有问题 Don't use it, it just doesn't work.

软件库里已经有Rime输入法，建议用它。 There's already Rime input method in the official repository, which is recommended over sogoupinyin.

sudo eopkg bi --ignore-safety https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GZGavinZhao/solus-grocery-store/main/sogoupinyin/sogoupinyin/pspec.xml && sudo eopkg it sogoupinyin-2.4.0.3469-1-1-x86_64.eopkg && sudo rm sogoupinyin-2.4.0.3469-1-1-x86_64.eopkg

注意事项： 安装后需要重启。Fcitx和ibus貌似不能同时使用，在未删掉期间若切换输入法可能会出现系统卡死的现象，唯一的解决办法就是强制重启……所以一定要保存好东西。若无法使用请参考这篇文章

NOTE: Reboot after installing. When you use Fcitx, it seems that you can't use any input methods from ibus (e.g. the once you set up in system settings). You can switch to them, but they can only output plain English. If you can't use it, refer to this article.

Known Issues

微信(WeChat)

一些已知但无法解决的问题：

• 最小化到托盘没法用。推测是因为libappindicator的问题（Solus用的是libayatana-appindicator），但是abi-wizard又没有检测出任何一个二进制文件中使用了libappindicator的ABI，所以我不理解……
• 应用图标依旧是灰色的，应该是由于微信本来是安装在/opt/apps/com.tencent.weixin/files/weixin，但是Solus（Arch也是一样）尽量需要安装在/usr/share，然后Electron就找不到图标了。
• 没法通过点右上角的X来关掉。再配合上最小化到托盘失灵，唯一关闭的方式就是左下角设置然后登出。这意味着每次关闭微信都要登出帐号，但因为Linux版还没有自动登录的功能，所以我觉得这应该不是一个太大的损失。
• 登出之后二维码会像掺了金坷垃一般疯狂刷新。这个时候不用管它，直接点右上角关掉微信即可。

搜狗拼音(sogoupinyin)

总结：能用，但很不稳定根本没法用。建议先开Fcitx自带的拼音输入法或者ibus的libpinyin和Pinyin以防万一，同时参考安装指南中的文章。

Fcitx和ibus似乎仍然存在互相干扰的问题……例如，尽管能正常打字/切换中英文，terminal中输入fcitx时会显示如下错误：

(WARN-7334 dbusstuff.c:248) DBus Service Already Exists
(ERROR-7334 instance.c:443) Exiting.

同时，搜狗拼音经常会“诈尸”。有时候它能用，有时候它自己就消失了。还请有能力的大神指点一二！

The interference between Fcitx and ibus is still a headache for me. It does work normally, but still gives weird warning messages when running fcitx in the terminal:

(WARN-7334 dbusstuff.c:248) DBus Service Already Exists
(ERROR-7334 instance.c:443) Exiting.

Please open an issue if you know how might it be resolved. Any help is appreciated!

Development

If you need to develop on top of packages in this repo, see the two *.profile files located at the root of the repo.

Architecture

Alicloud FC+NAS+OSS. WIP.