Debian Linux Package

[trymeouteh]

Please offer a bare metal DEB installer which will install Zen and add a Zen APT repository for future updates.

[ghost]

That's the only reason I haven't tried Zen yet. I've been waiting for months, maybe one day we'll get there ;-)

[KarimElsayad247]

Just a curious question, why is Flatpak not suitable for you?

[ghost]

@KarimElsayad247 sandbox so it breaks e.g. passwords managers.

I'm happy with Floorp, that's why I don't do anything about it. If there will be repo, maybe I try Zen. If not, I don't need it anyway.

[nocanoa]

If anyone want to contribute and make a workflow that does the .dep package u welcome,
Its hard to maintain/create it for 3 OSs and file types.

[homeschoolu]

https://github.com/GitXpresso/Browsers-NoVNC/releases/download/TarAndDeb/zen.linux-x86_64.deb

[homeschoolu]

but ...oops ...download and install ...nothing ??
Does anybody know why?

[senntore]

I'm also hoping for debian packaging for faster startup.
Speech dispatcher doesn't work with the flatpak package. It works with appimage & the archive release but both of them starts somewhat slow, especially the appimage.

[schneider-technology]

https://github.com/schneider-technology/zen-browser-deb

I wrote a script which creates a deb package out of the tarball - please note that this is in really early stages and my first Debian package ever. So use it at your own risk. Currently, I've only used it in a VM. I have to clean it up slightly so uninstalling works cleanly (see readme). Also I didn't test updating yet.

Please open an issue/pull request and I will try to improve the script.

[schneider-technology]

Just gonna bump this since it should be usable now. You may disagree with placing all the data in /usr/lib/zen-browser, but that's how firefox-esr does it and therefore I simply did the same. If anyone has more experience than I with such things, please create an issue or pull request.

I hope the team considers offering debian packages, but for now I will just build them myself.

[sh4r10]

I've also written a script which basically reverse engineers the provided install script to create a deb package from the linux tarball, as opposed to the Appimage. I'm using the built debs myself on my main daily driver debian system and have not encountered any issues so far. It is also my first deb package so be nice, and if you don't like something you are free to change it in the script config to suite your liking. I've tried to document it as well as possible so that it can be used with as little friction as possible. I also build the deb packages and try to keep consistent with the release of new updates if that works better for you. Here is the repo: https://github.com/sh4r10/zen-browser-debian.