RPM support (Red Hat Distributions)

[AucaCoyan]

Description

I would like to improve support to the Red Hat distributions. Among the tasks:

• to have an RPM package to release in every new version of espanso. There has been some works, but to my knowledge non were completed
  • this is partially solved by terrapkgs link. We should check if it's properly installable
• there has been problems to build espanso in Fedora (missing a link to an issue)

Motivation

More than a few users asked for it, and we want to add it to the supported platforms!

Have you tried building it? Or would you like it?

I'm a windows and debian user, I can't help much more than pointing to a direction

References:

• @xplosionmind showed interest here
• rpm package #596 and RPM & openSUSE Repository #603 were steps on the right direction, but a bit old to the date

[pointydev]

As I partially stated in my comment in #1208 (comment), outside of users directly downloading and installing RPMs, there are alternatives for distribution, which include:

• Official Fedora repos
• Copr build system (Iosevka advertises one of their community repositories here)
• Third-party repositories such as Terra (who also allow for package requests via GitHub)
• Making a dedicated repository (Mullvad and WineHQ take this approach)

[AucaCoyan]

Thank you! That's really valuable info. I'm really in the mist for the red hat packaging 😆

[pointydev]

Now that Terra has added Espanso as a package for Fedora 38 through Rawhide, while we don't have an RPM build to distribute on release, could I suggest adding instructions for installing on Fedora using Terra to the documentation? The process on a stock Fedora system would be to:

1. Install Terra as a repository by following their documentation (literally one command)
2. Install Espanso using DNF by running either:
   • On X11: sudo dnf install espanso-x11
   • On Wayland: sudo dnf install espanso-wayland
3. Registering the service and starting it as usual, or starting unmanaged

[AucaCoyan]

Yes please! You can look into #1695 and #1791