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I've been using open webui for some time but I wanted to test the Alpaka, a KDE app - https://apps.kde.org/alpaka/

When I click on an "Install on linux" button, Discover app is opening and gives me this error "Could not open appstream://org.kde.alpaka because it was not found in any available software repositories." When using dnf there's no such package as Aplaka. I can find and install other KDE apps. What am I missing?

I'm on Fedora 40, KDE spin.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

It's not packaged for Fedora, as simple as that.

Unfortunately there's no Flatpak either. You can try asking in the Matrix channel: #alpaka:kde.org

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's not being packaged by distros yet. You need to build from source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I recommend the flatpak version. It's still a little buggy as an app, and it's missing a few features, but it'll be rad when it's done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

On that note I wonder why Windows devs package software ASAP and Linux devs sometimes never do. Often the same who do the former also do the latter.