Include prebuilt .deb packages in Releases on Github for original applications like Deepin Movie

[dartharva]

It will be very helpful for non-developer end-users running Debian-based linux distributions if the team provides easy .deb packages to install for the x86_64 architecture. There is mass adoption of Linux distributions ongoing among new users unsatisfied with the low quality of Windows 11, and they will benefit greatly from better and more portable accessibility of Deepin applications for personal use.

[BLumia]

Even if a distro is considered debian-based, their packages provided in their package repository might still have different versions. deb format is not a universal format that if one produce a deb file then it can be used in every debian-based distro.

There are other package formats/solutions for this purpose, like flatpak, linyaps, appimage, etc. The first-party supported solution is linyaps and some deepin applications already available via linyaps, you might consider try it out if you're interested :)

[dartharva]

The linyapps store appears to only support Chinese UI. I cannot read Chinese and was not able to use this despite several tries with both linglong-store and linyaps-store-minimalist packages.

If not .deb, I believe appimage would be the best portable format as developers can wrap the application and all its dependencies into one distro-agnostic executable. Please consider supporting it. flatpak is also a more accessible format widely in use across the world.

[BLumia]

I'd also personally suggest to try distrobox and install deepin via it, then you can install deepin applications inside the box and export to your host OS.

Supporting AppImage and/or flatpak might need community contributors to work on these support, if anyone interested, consider join the developer chatroom via Telegram or Matrix :)