flatpak

Rachel Schrader rachels at mailbox.org
Sun Sep 22 19:07:41 BST 2024


It's on this page. https://apps.kde.org/rkward/

Thank you for the info. I will use the appimage for the time being.

I am not a developer but I am a data analyst and sociologist who really 
likes KDE. Hopefully I can help out in other places such as reporting 
bugs or with documentation.

On 9/22/24 03:15, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Adding to Meik's reply:
>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:55:57 -0600
> Rachel Schrader <rachels at mailbox.org> wrote:
>> I was curious if I could still get rkward on flatpak. The homepage as
>> a link for it but it appears to be broken and I don't see it on
>> flathub.
> I don't seem to find that link. Could you point me to it so I can
> remove / replace it?
>
> For some context on why we are not providing flatpak: We've
> experimented with that, but the flatpak sandboxing is simply too
> restrictive. I order to be able to install R add-on packages, we'd need
> to be able to interface with a system-installed R, but that seems to be
> out of reach.
>
> As Meik already wrote, we do provide official AppImages, however, which
> do no suffer from the same limitation.
>
> Regards
> Thomas


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