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+name: manual-nightly-ok
+
+on: 
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+          release:
+            description: 'release'     
+            required: true
+            default: 'nightly'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+env:
+  ccache: ccache
+
+jobs:
+  manual-nightly:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    if: github.repository == 'openframeworks/openFrameworks' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+    strategy:
+        matrix:
+          cfg:
+          - {target: linux64, libs: 64gcc6}
+    steps:
+    - name: Install libunwind
+      run:  sudo apt-get install libunwind-dev    
+    - name: Cache Packages
+      uses: awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action@latest
+      with:
+        packages: aptitude aptitude-common libboost-iostreams1.83.0 libcwidget4 libsigc++-2.0-0v5 libxapian30 fonts-wine{a} libasound2-plugins{a} libcapi20-3t64{a} libosmesa6{a} libpcsclite1{a} libspeexdsp1{a} libwine{a} libxkbregistry0{a} libz-mingw-w64{a} wine{a} wine64 make curl libjack-jackd2-0 libjack-jackd2-dev freeglut3-dev libasound2-dev libxmu-dev libxxf86vm-dev g++ libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libraw1394-dev libudev-dev libdrm-dev libglew-dev libopenal-dev libsndfile1-dev libfreeimage-dev libcairo2-dev libfreetype6-dev libssl-dev libpulse-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libopencv-dev libassimp-dev librtaudio-dev gdb libglfw3-dev liburiparser-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpugixml-dev libgconf-2-4 libgtk2.0-0 libpoco-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
+        # libunwind-dev wget2 
+        version: 1.0
+
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: ccache
+      uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2.14
+      with:
+        key: ${{ matrix.cfg.target }}
+    - name: update submodules
+      run: ./scripts/dev/init_submodules.sh
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: ./scripts/ci/${{matrix.cfg.target}}/install.sh;
+    - name: Download libs
+      run: ./scripts/linux/download_libs.sh -a ${{matrix.cfg.libs}};
+    - name: Create Package
+      run: scripts/ci/package_builds.sh ${{ github.event.inputs.release }};
+      id: createpackage
+    - name: List output directory
+      run: ls -lah out/
+    # - name: Test Artefact zip
+    #   run: |
+    #     tar -cjf out/manual-mega_artefact.tar.bz2 -C out $(echo ${{ steps.createpackage.outputs.FILES_OUT }} | tr ' ' '\n' | sed 's|^out/||')
+    # - name: Upload binaries as Artefact
+    #   uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+    #   with:
+    #     name: openFrameworks-all-artefact-${{ env.TARGET }}-${{ matrix.bundle }}
+    #     path: out/manual-mega_artefact.tar.bz2
+    #     retention-days: 1
+    - name: Update Release
+      uses: IsaacShelton/update-existing-release@v1.3.4
+      if: github.repository == 'openframeworks/openFrameworks' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
+      with:
+        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.release }}
+        release: ${{ github.event.inputs.release }}
+        prerelease: false
+        replace: true
+        files: ${{ steps.createpackage.outputs.FILES_OUT }}