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SAABoy 2010-03-21 17:57
How to check for new apps for download?
 
Hey,

Is there a way to see what's recently been added to the list of applications available to download?
So far I'm still staying away from 'devel' and 'testing' repositories, and will only install applications from the normal maemo forums and such... I check every here and there and if anything catches my eye I will install it... But I would like to know what's new since I last checked.

Is there a way to do this?

Thank you.

b666m 2010-03-21 18:04
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
i think when you click "Downloads" on the top of this page you'll see the most popular and the hottest (newest/latest) apps?!

or you install an app named "appwatch" there you can sort the list by date and i think it even shows a preview for some apps to come :)

zimon 2010-03-21 18:07
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
There is "appdownloader" application which will tell statistics and "what is new" in repositories.
I do not know from which repo I got it from.

(How to know, i.e. in terminal, from where some installed package was retrieved from?)

SAABoy 2010-03-21 18:14
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by b666m (Post 576083)
i think when you click "Downloads" on the top of this page you'll see the most popular and the hottest (newest/latest) apps?!

or you install an app named "appwatch" there you can sort the list by date and i think it even shows a preview for some apps to come :)
that appwatch app is exactly what i had in mind...

SAABoy 2010-03-21 18:19
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by zimon (Post 576087)
There is "appdownloader" application which will tell statistics and "what is new" in repositories.
I do not know from which repo I got it from.

(How to know, i.e. in terminal, from where some installed package was retrieved from?)
appdownloader sounds good too :)

SAABoy 2010-03-21 18:21
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
I dont see either of these apps when i look in my application manager. Are there in testing or something?

msa 2010-03-21 18:29
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by SAABoy (Post 576111)
I dont see either of these apps when i look in my application manager. Are there in testing or something?
ironically, both appwatch and appdownloader are in testing or devel...

SAABoy 2010-03-21 19:01
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by msa (Post 576121)
ironically, both appwatch and appdownloader are in testing or devel...
That, is comedic... But, but, is there an appwatch watch to watch for appwatch?

So I guess I can semi-manually monitor new apps by checking the site via browser?

b666m 2010-03-21 19:07
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
mhm... just add the rss-feed-widget to any of your desktops and add the download's hot section as rss feed ;)

http://maemo.org/downloads/rss/Maemo5/rss.xml

zimon 2010-03-23 13:36
Re: How to check for new apps for download?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by zimon (Post 576087)
(How to know, i.e. in terminal, from where some installed package was retrieved from?)
$ dpkg --status appdownloader

...just tells:
Quote:
Package: appdownloader
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: user/system
Installed-Size: 360
Maintainer: daniel wilms <danielwilms@gmail.com>
Architecture: armel
Version: 0.1-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5.0-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1), libqt4-core (>= 4.5.3~git20090723), libqt4-gui (>= 4.5.3~git20090723), libqt4-network (>= 4.5.3~git20090723), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1), libqt4-appdownloader-comm
Description: Download client for extras applications in maemo.org
This application should ease the discovery and installation of maemo.org applications
Known issues:
-> login and commenting not possible yet
-> some metadata missing
But no idea yet how to see from what repository it came from.
Also time when it was installed would be nice to know.


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