📦 Stores and Package Managers

[hacdias]

Summary

Many users want to see IPFS Desktop binaries distributed across many stores and package managers. This issue will be used to address those and new requests should be done here for now.

Status

Package Manager	Status	How to
Homebrew (macOS)	🐓	brew cask install ipfs
Chocolatey (Windows)	🐓	choco install ipfs-desktop
Scoop (Windows)	🐓	scoop bucket add extras && scoop install ipfs-desktop package maintained by @NatoBoram
WinGet (Windows)	❔
PPA Ubuntu/Debian	❔
Flatpak	❔
Snap	🐓	snap install ipfs-desktop
AUR	🐓	package maintained by @alexhenrie
App Store (macOS)	❔

• ❔ : Status unknown
• 🐣 : Work in progress
• 🐓 : Published

[mkg20001]

I'd also add snaps (https://snapcraft.io) to the list as it's also a fairly common distribution method and can be easily integrated (https://build.snapcraft.io)

[olizilla]

homebrew pls! - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

[lidel]

This feels like a good opportunity to improve community involvement.

When v1.0 is ready we (or Package Managers WG) should reach out to current maintainers of existing go-ipfs packages and ask them for help with adding ipfs-desktop one:

• https://repology.org/metapackages/?search=ipfs&maintainer=&category=&inrepo=&notinrepo=&repos=&families=&repos_newest=&families_newest=

[lidel]

+ we should provide prebuilt standalone .deb and .rpm as best-effort approach to cover remaining Linux distros.

[hacdias]

Brew cask just added as ipfs. See the PR for why it is not ipfs-desktop.

brew cask install ipfs for everyone.

[lidel]

Note that we now provide a generic Tar package (.tar.xz) for Linux.
It should make packaging for a specific distro easier (no need for manual build).

[grahamperrin]

Might someone add and maintain a port for FreeBSD?

We have https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ipfs-go/ for IPFS implementation in Go, but no port for IPFS Desktop.

[boomshroom]

Nixpkgs, or just a nix file in the repo. 1 complication for this is the difficulty in setting up an Electron package at the moment. The unorthodox directory structure makes it difficult build normally.

[NatoBoram]

It's available via scoop here.

ScoopInstaller/Extras#1597

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install ipfs-desktop

[Dr-Chronosphere]

Could someone add WinGet to the list of package managers? It's still in active development, but I feel like Microsoft is going to make a larger push for it in the future.

[prototype99]

I cannot find support Gentoo (portage) yet.

[agnelvishal]

Could consider storing the installation files (.exe, .dmg, .tar.gz) in IPFS instead of Github storage?

[lidel]

@agnelvishal definitely, but we need to migrate autoupdate mechanizm to support that first – see my notes in #1263 (comment)

[RubenKelevra]

Flatpak would be nice!

[NatoBoram]

Looks like I was completely ignored even thought winget was added to the list. Here's a reminder that I commented.

It's available via scoop here.

lukesampson/scoop-extras#1597

scoop bucket add extras
scoop install ipfs-desktop

It's important to not discriminate package managers. If this issue is not taken seriously, then please consider closing it.

[hacdias]

@NatoBoram added to the list!

[jessicaschilling]

@NatoBoram - note that Scoop has been listed in the docs at https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-desktop/#package-managers for a while now. Will update CLI instructions per your comment under ipfs/ipfs-docs#615.

[FireMasterK]

There seems to be a package for WinGet now: https://winget.run/pkg/IPFS/IPFS-Desktop

[ShadSterling]

Macports (macOS) has an ipfs package: https://ports.macports.org/port/ipfs/summary

I'm guessing it's just the CLI (not the Desktop), but should be on the list

[lidel]

I'm closing this and suggest that people just open a PR against "Install" section of README so it can be discovered by others with more ease :)

[ShadSterling]

Added MacPorts in PR #1816

WinGet is still missing; I haven't used Windows since XP, so I'll leave that for someone more familiar.
Maybe @FireMasterK ?

[lessneek]

why there is no a Flatpak package? nor RPM (fedora)? any plans?

[KaKi87]

Hello,
Why was this closed ?
There's currently no package manager support whatsoever for Debian-based distros (APT/PPA/Flatpak/Snap).
Thanks

[DeedleFake]

I currently use the AppImage on Manjaro and it is very, very much a less than ideal experience. Trying to get it to consistently autostart when I login seems to be impossible. A Flatpak would be very much appreciated.

[KaKi87]

Hi,

A few months ago, I started developing a tool named dynapt to automatically fetch updates through APT for packages that don't provide an APT repository.

As I've been upgrading IPFS Desktop through it for quite some time now, I just published my first pre-release of it, which you can download and set up from this tutorial.

For IPFS Desktop specifically, replace the following configuration line :

    "apps": []

With the following :

    "apps": [
        {
            "name": "IPFS Desktop",
            "github": {
                "repo": "ipfs/ipfs-desktop"
            }
        }
    ]

For questions or issues, please submit a comment on the tutorial page.

Thanks

[omnicortex]

+1