Help building a flatpak for qutebrowser

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Wed Jun 21 13:54:31 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 01:11 +0200, Aleix Pol wrote:
>> Hi Ankur,
>> It would be useful to see your manifest to see what could be going
>> wrong.
>
> Ah - I didn't actually set up a manifest or anything. I just followed
> the steps here[0]. Instead of the `configure` etc as in the example, I
> used `python setup.py` from the specfile[1].
>
>
>> Also maybe contact the upstream qutebrowser community (if that's not
>> yourself that is :)), they will have a better insight of why
>> qutebrowser would not be found.
>
> I'm not upstream but I can get in touch with them if required - they're
> quite active on the IRC and Github etc. The rpm package works, though,
> which is what made me think that there was something python specific
> that I hadn't done.
>
> I'll try again, this time using a manifest, and see how that goes. Is
> this the right documentation to follow[2]?

Yes, I'd recommend using manifests and flatpak-builder.

You can use the platform we are producing that includes Qt already.
Maybe you can get inspired with these:
https://cgit.kde.org/flatpak-kde-applications.git/tree/

Aleix


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