[digiKam-users] flatpak instructions (for the README file)

[Stuart Rogers]

These programs only appear by default if you install them with flatpak. You can open up the flatpak system to allow access to existing programs but I'm not sure exactly how, I think you have to add the paths to them.

Stuart 

On 1 June 2020 18:12:29 BST, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello Peter,
>Thank you for posting the readme here.
>You mentioned that digiKam flatpak is not able to open GIMP. Does that
>mean
>that "Open With" menu won't work at all?
>If that is the case it will a deal breaker for most of us then. I am
>sure
>most users use digikam in conjunction with exiftool, ffmpeg, mediainfo,
>GIMP, Kdenlive, Krita, darktable, RawTherapee and others. Even the
>ability
>to locate selected file in dolphin or other file manager seems crucial
>(to
>me).
>
>Thanks,
>Andrey
>
>
>On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 10:31 AM Peter Teuben <teuben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I wanted to start a new thread, with the intend to spiffing up the
>> README file that Gilles started on
>>
>>
>https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/tree/master/project/bundles/flatpak
>>
>> Here is my writeup, still a little KDE (kubuntu w/ plasma) centric,
>but
>> with the intent to be command line driven as much as possible. I
>invite
>> anybody to comment and me or somebody will edit the README.md file
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> You need admin permission to install the flatpak infrastructure
>>
>>        sudo apt install flatpak
>>        flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub
>> https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
>>
>> and on Kubuntu there is a optional GUI based discovery tool
>>
>>        sudo apt install plasma-discover-flatpak-backend
>>
>> after rebooting (it claims), you can then do your user installs
>>
>>        flatpak install flathub org.kde.digikam
>>
>> This will install your apps in ~/.var/app.   Also perhaps import that
>> note that any config
>> files live there (e.g. ~/.var/app/org.kde.digikam/config/digikamrc
>and
>> your settings in
>> ~/.config/digikamrc are out of visibility)
>>
>> running the app goes as follows
>>
>>        flatpak run org.kde.digikam
>>
>> Since flatpak's run in a restricted environment, you will find that
>not
>> all directories
>> can be see by the digikam collections (/home and /media are
>exceptions),
>> and you will not
>> be able to launch gimp for example. To edit these settings there is
>> flatseal to the rescue:
>>
>>        flatpak install flathub flatseal
>>
>> which I then read you can either use a command line (but as root,
>this I
>> still find confusing)
>>
>>        sudo flatpak override org.kde.digikam --filesystem=/Photos
>>
>> or use the GUI
>>
>>        "launch flatseal, select digiKam", add to "Other files" or
>select
>> "All system files"
>>        Those will be stored in
>> ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides/org.kde.digikam
>>
>> now you can run flatpack and see your oddly named /Photos directory
>>
>>        flatpak run org.kde.digikam
>>
>> More information on flatpak, and flatseal permission settings on
>>
>>
>https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/how-install-and-use-flatpak-linux/
>> https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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