Is there any chance of having Ubports or Unity 8 on Samsung DeX?

chdslv

Is there any chance of having Ubports or Unity 8 on Samsung DeX? On Linux on DeX? Ubuntu 16.04 is quite nicely working there. It is the only distro available yet.

advocatux

@chdslv as in any volunteer based project, the chance of something happening is up to you

dobey

For Linux on DeX, I presume you can simply add the UBports apt key and repo, and then install unity8, however it likely won't work, due to how things are built.

chdslv

@advocatux
If I could do that, I wouldn't have asked the question.

It would be nice, if UBports can discuss the matter with the Linux on DeX developer team. I mean, if they agree, things would go forward on quite new devices. I have an N5, but it becoming just a toy now, mostly lying around.

advocatux

If I could do that, I wouldn't have asked the question

@chdslv I don't agree with that statement, there are a lot of things that you can do even if you don't have a deep technical knowledge. For example, you can do some fieldwork, contact DeX developers, learn about their plans, explain them what UT by UBports is all about, ask them whether they're interested in "our" kind of approach to Convergence, etc

dobey

@chdslv said in Is there any chance of having Ubports or Unity 8 on Samsung DeX?:

I mean, if they agree, things would go forward on quite new devices.

Getting Unity8 working under Linux on DeX would be completely unrelated to the issues of porting to newer devices.

chdslv

@dobey said in Is there any chance of having Ubports or Unity 8 on Samsung DeX?:

For Linux on DeX, I presume you can simply add the UBports apt key and repo, and then install unity8, however it likely won't work, due to how things are built.

What is the Ubports apt key (where can get it)?

advocatux

@chdslv apt-key is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to authenticate packages.

You can find UBports key at http://repo.ubports.com/

chdslv

@advocatux said in Is there any chance of having Ubports or Unity 8 on Samsung DeX?:

@chdslv apt-key is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to authenticate packages.

You can find UBports key at http://repo.ubports.com/

@advocatux
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 00000000
What is the number to replace 00000000

or should I do,
apt-key adv --fetch-keys http://repo.ubports.com/archive.key

or any other way?

advocatux

@chdslv you can run this command for example:

wget -O https://repo.ubports.com/keyring.gpg - | sudo apt-key add -

chdslv

@advocatux Thanks!
Anyway, I think a touch centered distro won't work with Dex. The device is supposed to work as a touchpad, when an external monitor is used. Don't know even, it'd get installed. Thanks anyway.