[GCompris-devel] Testing Flatpak

[Bruno Coudoin]

Hi all,

We have a hard time being packaged on GNU/Linux. Our Debian packager
just resigned and beside OpenSuse the Qt version of GCompris is still
not proposed to our users.

In the hope to find a distribution wide solution to this problem, I
tested a package using Flatpak http://flatpak.org/

I just uploaded a GCompris build for Flatpak and would love to get your
feedback on it. This approach is based on the ability of GCompris on
linux to be build as a standalone.  I thus package the libraries comming
from the Qt version used at GCompris build time. Latter on if flatpak is
successful we can expect that there will be a Qt flatpak runtine to base
our package on instead. Warning, the audio is not working and I don't
know how to make it works.

First install flatpak as documented on http://flatpak.org/

Then:
flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify gcompris-repo
http://gcompris.net/flatpak-repo
flatpak --user install gcompris-repo net.gcompris.GCompris
flatpak run net.gcompris.GCompris

Let us know on which distro you tested it and if it works for you.

Bruno.