One person has kindly volunteered to attempt to put together a snap package. Let’s see how he gets on. I hope it works out.
I don’t expect there will be a Debian/Ubuntu deb or Fedora RPM package any time soon. It really does take expert knowledge to create one of those, because in this case several dependencies also need to be packaged.
In theory I could take the time to develop that expertise. But it would take a serious amount of time, and any time I put into that is time taken from developing the program itself. And that’s time I don’t have.
At issue here is that generally speaking, if we look at the big picture, there is a large number of programs and program libraries that would be great to have packaged in the major Linux distros, but which are not packaged. They are not packaged because there is too much to package and not enough people to do it. Moreover, sometimes packaging decisions are made by volunteers who are not experts in what they’re packaging, so sometimes the wrong software library is packaged, or it is given the wrong name, etc. Once these errors are made, it’s not easy to undo them.
Snap packages are one approach to solve this problem. AppImage and FlatPaks are another approach to solve similar but not identical problems. I really hope they work out, because the current system is unsustainable, even for the biggest distros like Debian and Arch.
Back to the topic of Rapid Photo Downloader packaging itself. For now, the only way to install it is using the current method. That may change when and if a snap package arrives. If an official Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu packager decides they like the program enough, someone might decide to put the time into package it. As i say, I can’t do that myself.
@Fotonut part of the problem you are seeing is that you’re using Linux Mint. I haven’t tested the installation of my program at all on Linux Mint, especially not a beta version of that distro. I’ve tested it on the entire Ubuntu family and Fedora. Meanwhile please be patient because I’m doing my best.