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[–] val_ash@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

without relying on unmaintained flatpaks

https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy, this one has separate support for Steamos

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Syncthingy is just a dashboard. It doesn't have the service packaged in, you have to set it up separately as a systemd service if it isn't already included in your distro, which will get rewritten by SteamOS

[–] val_ash@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe this is true for SteamOS, but I am mostly was replying about "great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks". I use immutable Distro, there is maintained syncthing available as Flatpak, and i did not experienced any problems related to using immutable distribution with syncthing specifically, so eh.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Syncthing is working on your immutable distro, it's probably packaged with the distro withiut you being aware of it

[–] val_ash@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope.

syncthing: Kommando nicht gefunden

As far I am aware - there is no other packages related to syncthing is avaliable in distro repositories and this one not included by distro by default.

UPD: there also appears to be syncthing-tools package in repos, but it is also not included in mine system by default and I never installed it myself.

The only trace of Syncthing on my system is... well, from that flatpak. And unless I missunderstund how any of that works, syncthing is included in flatpak and you can look for it in its manifest file: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy/blob/a786450f1305474e71c1f33c468ff3dc5758e238/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy.yml#L42 It takes syncting release from https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases and adds it to build process.