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#8

EDIT:
the best way to install any app form open repos (like a YT client) is to install Storeman and then install the app from there. To install Storeman you should follow instructions here (thanks @olf).
https://openrepos.net/content/osetr/storeman-installer
If for any reason you do not want to install Storeman (not recommended) you can still install an app with the following method (in this example Microtube), however you will not receive any update this way.
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oh, I am no dev either, actually at the other side of the spectrum. So if you what to make your life easier, follow attah suggestion and install Storeman. If you just want to install a player I can tell you what I did on my XA2 to install Microtube. Make sure you also have an arm device.

  1. On the phone go to Settings → ? Untrusted software and activate Allow untrusted software.

  2. Go here:
    Node.js | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System
    and download nodejs-12.17.0-1.armv7hl.rpm

  3. Go to the download folder of your File Browser and click on the file you just downloaded to install it. If you haven’t installed a file browser just go to Settings → Storage → User Data → Downloads and click on the file…

  4. Go here Microtube | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System and download the most recent version, as of today: microtube-2.1.5-1.armv7hl.rpm

  5. Repeat step 3. You might need a reboot before using the app. You’re done.

If you are using a more recent, aarch64 device, just do the same things but you should install
this version of nodejs:

https://openrepos.net/content/mistermagister/nodejs12

Then also pick the aarch64 version of Microtube in step 4.

Maybe you’re still in time to play that Christmas song playlist :slight_smile:

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#9

  1. LLs Video Player | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System is an excellent media player, also for Youtube. It is more generic that the other ones.

  2. Please do not advise people to download RPMs and install them manually!
    Storeman is the way to go, because with it these apps will also be updated.

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#10

Attah suggested to use open repos, I reiterated that, and it is good you’re pointing out specifically that installing by downloading the rpm the apps won’t update, since I didn’t. However, after all the warnings, he has one way of doing it as he asked for clear instructions. Back in the day, I installed storeman the same way, but now as I understood things have changed: there’s an installer and I haven’t digged into that, so it would be nice to help him to install storeman as well - if anyone had the steps ready at hand. Actually, that would also be useful for myself.
@panfila I do agree my solution is not optimal. It would be better to install your youtube client through Storeman, so if you get clear instructions on how to do that, you might want to mark that answer as the solution.

#11

I am pretty sure @attah had in mind “using Openrepos.net per Storeman”.

BTW, searching the web, specifically this forum, and reading thoroughly is a great cultural technique, which also bears some social implications.
So does asking specific and concise questions, after one has evaluated all available information.
As an exercise you might start at Storeman Installer | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System

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#12

Concerning Navigation: Later Versions of Here Wego do work fine. Native offline navigation with Pure Maps is also good but missing life traffic analysis while therefore more effectively respecting your privacy.

#13

all that was stated here before, just like here:

panfila, there is an own section called getting started with multiple threads on stores, apps etc.

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#14

What is that Storeman is it some APP store or website with many APK files ?

#15

second link on the result page:
https://openrepos.net/content/osetr/storeman-installer

mentioned at least 3 times in aswers in your threads.

sorry for beeing unkind, but if you do not read our answers, why should we waste our time ?
as olf stated: storeman is the app to install stuff from openrepos.net

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#16

Of course, Storeman, that’s what I had in mind too.
Is the exercise for me? :slight_smile:

With time the forum is becoming huge and search results can be many and confusing to a newcomer. So once a thread is open I believe it can be nice to give one more time the solution in it. The forum will have more solutions and less cross references to solutions. Meaning if we just stay on topic we can improve it. As I think we did with your help as now anyone needing it will find info about 3 yt clients and 2 ways to install them, via Storeman or without - in case he doesn’t want another Store for whatever reason.
Have nice holidays.

#17

Exactly, as @pawel.spoon said Storeman is the store app that helps you install and update all the native apps present on Openrepos.net. All the apps on openrepos are not in APK file format though, which is the one for Android apps, but in RPM, which is the file format Sailfish OS natively uses.

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#18

I installed Microtube with the complementary Kabouikt app. But each time I tap on Microtube The wheel keeps turning for a while and. then the app closes.
When reading the Forum viewer app om my XA2 + in 4.2 I try to open this thread in external browser. The apps to choose from: Webcat ( removed some time ago) and Microtube. No Sailfish browser app appears. So I am typing this on my ipad.
I can use Microtube however, if I visit the app in Storeman and ask for ‘open’. Rather incovenient.
.

#19

I see, I also have the same phone on 4.2. When I tap on microtube I have to wait a bit before it opens, up to 20 seconds, but then it works fine. Have you tried rebooting? If you still have problems, @Mister_Magister generally replies very quickly if you leave him a comment on openrepos. As for the ‘open with’ dialog, I totally understand, as I was hit by this bug when I updated to 4.2. They said in 4.3 it is working better, but eventually I read about bugs in that update and I wisely decided to skip it, so cannot give you any confirmation. I stayed in 4.2 and found a solution which works for me and I shared here on the forum, but I don’t feel like recommending it as I am not so knowledgeable.

#20

go to
~/.local/share/microtube/microtube/js
and run
npm install

if anyone has issues with microtube^

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#21

Why did you provide the advice to manually download RPMs and install them per file-manager, then?
That is exactly the opposite (and wrong) approach! And @panfila marked that answer of yours as “solution”. :slightly_frowning_face:

Is the exercise for me? :slight_smile:

Yes, because you wrote:

Another time the wrong approach, IMO: Duplicating inferior answers is making this forum “huge” without proper content, cross-linking to the correct answer is the way to go!
I.e. here: “2 ways to install” with one leading directly to update-hell (because it is not sustainable, as update detection and installation must be performed completely manually) is describing one way too much.

#22

Just install youtube vanced apk

#23

sorry, doesn’t work on my Xperia 10 / SFOS 4.3 . Microtube starts and finds search results, but on starting one of them the wheel starts turning and never loads anything and never starts playing.
What can be the reason for this? What have I done wrong ?

#25

Great i have one more question i try to install one game "archero” and installed well create icon in menu but the game required a google service is it have way to work without this because when i try to start it star but then show me info message required google service and then crash and start over again same is for chat client “Confide”.
One more question is have a way to lie google service for example to find some apk files “microG” and "Google play services” and to install and to lie system or doesn’t work like that ?

Tell me some solutions please.

#26

I think it is a case when written words are not helping to understand each other. I meant that in post 9, in replying to YOU I had in mind “Storeman” but mistakenly wrote “open repos”.

By itself it does not harm your system and still has some use cases. I have chosen to use it once or twice despite its downsides. E.g, I am very conservative on the number of apps I want to have installed on my phone. When I wanted one single app from Freedroid, I did not want to install a store just for it: I downloaded the apk. No updates? I did not care for that app, so everybody should evaluate case by case for themselves. If instead you want to say in general it is not the best way, I will agree with you.

That’s why I first suggested to go the Storeman route as the best way, and only if he didn’t want to install that, to download the RPM. Not a sin to give an old shoe if you say it is old. The person might still take it for whitening his house, he chooses. And you promptly helped me describing the shoe :slight_smile:

Not my doing… I asked him to mark the other solution instead. I have also edited my post to point to it. What else? Wait… I can edit it more to make things even more clear… Fixed! Hope it works for you too.

Well, in short, I was asking to help me help the OP, since I could not do it the proper way.
Quite different from someone who opens a duplicate thread because he’s not willing to perform a search beforehand, don’t you think? I have a ridiculous amount of reading time on this forum and despite that, you won’t find a single thread opened by me so far. That is because I always searched and found places where my same problems where being already discussed. So may we say being assigned an exercise was a bit cruel? Especially during holiday time? :slight_smile:

This is quite an interesting matter. I have to both agree and disagree. It depends. If the link points to a concise, clear solution as the one you found for Storeman, that’s just fine. Many other times answers are scattered through lengthy threads and hard to follow for technically impaired people like myself. So a kind of “recap” can be useful at times. And I still believe it’s better if a solution is always given or pointed to, even if you want to “educate” the person who didn’t perform a search, because that thread will still appear in future searches, it won’t disappear. Imagine you search for “Working Youtube client” and get 10 results. In the first 9 you find a lot of “this was already discussed, search better, you are the flagger, go back to Android!” plus some half-unrelated discussion (similar to this one) that you still read, in the hope something for you is there. So you open the 10th thread and bingo, you find what you were looking for. Wouldn’t you be better off if, instead, many posts had a link or a recap of the solution?

Enough hijacking. If you want to further discuss this specific point we’d better do it in a new thread. And let’s not forget to search beforehand… we don’t want a duplicate right on this :wink:

#27

I’d really like to help but I don’t know, if the app starts it is likely a problem with Microtube, not with the way you installed it. It’s working fine on my XA2 4.2. I used to get that circle with the previous version of the app but then it got fixed, are you on the latest version? Have you tried a reboot? And especially, the dev of Microtube was kind enough to give us a solution in post 19, did you try that one as well?

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#28

@enrish You have XA2 / 4.2, and I have X10 / 4.3 . There are some differences. More than one app stopped working since the step from 4.2 to 4.3 , and/or new version of app was needed. So, as the next update is coming soon, I’ll better wait and see if it’s better with 4.4 .

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