Is there any way to run DeltaChat on mobian on the PinePhone or PineTab (arm64)?
There is no client ready for use, but you can help testing and developing Kirigami-based client:
I had a look at your prototype, but as I am not a programmer, I donāt understand very much of it ā¦
I thought more to get for example the AppImage run on the PineTab, as I have already the AppImage run on my debian desktop.
Iām also looking for away to get DC running on Mobian ā that would be great! Iām also looking for binaries, recipes to follow just donāt work when I put my skills to test, tooā¦
Another ARM64 / aarch64 user here who would love to be able to run DeltaChat (both on arch/manjaro and debian/armbian/mobian distros + aarch64 hardaware.)
Only slightly related: The appimage download pages donāt mention that the files are x86-64, from an end-user standpoint it would be nice to have -x86_64.AppImage or -aarch64.AppImage as a filename standard.
Extremely related: link2xt, thank you so much for your work. Going to be starting in on kdeltachat here shortly.
EDIT: kdeltachat will build and run on a Pinebook Pro > Linux - 5.9.6-1-MANJARO-ARM - aarch64
Last time I tried to build deltachat-core-rust it failed way harder than I could figure out (boiled down to an openssl issue if I remember correctly,) glad to see that initial blocking issue has been solved.
Manjaro (arch-based) specific process:
- install rust via $ curl --proto ā=httpsā --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
- reboot for the env changes to take
- install missing deps via # pacman - S gcc make cmake git
- clone deltachat-core-rust via $ git clone https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust.git
- clone kdeltachat via $ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat
- $ cd kdeltachat
- $ mkdir build
- $ cd build
- $ cmake ā¦
- $ make
Then finally, ./kdeltachat
Iād try this on my pinephone + mobian but Iām pretty sour on how fragile that distro is at the moment, got tired of reinstalling images for the time beingā¦
Any news on this?
I have created an unlisted repository for Flatpak builder scripts, you can use it to bulid and test KDeltaChat on Linux easily: ~link2xt/kdeltachat-flatpak - sourcehut git
You may need to update the commit hash (last line in chat.delta.kdeltachat.yml
) with a pointer to the latest commit in ~link2xt/kdeltachat - sourcehut git, because I donāt do it on every update. Alternatively, build according to the README in KDeltaChat repository without Flatpak.
KDeltaChat is far from being ready to use, but I continue its development slowly. You can configure new accounts with basic settings now, chat avatars and the number of unnoticed messages are displayed in the chatlist and there is a working āSettingsā page with the ability to toggle encryption and read receipts.
Thanks for your work! I tried to build the flatpak but my PinePhone freezes with the flatpak-builder on āBuilding [=======> ] 410/411ā
I would try cross compiling, as the ram of the pinephone might fill up compiling the core in release mode.
Looks like flatpak-builder has built-in qemu support for cross-compliation, worth a try indeed:
I would try qemu path first though.
Any news on what to expect in far or near future? Without Signal or DeltaChat that phone is almost as useful as a paperweight