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PyBitmessage Linux flatpak instructions
Some recent Linux distributions don't support QT4 anymore, hence PyBitmessage won't run with a GUI. However, if you build PyBitmessage as a flatpak, it will run in a sandbox which provides QT4._
Requirements
First make sure you have flatpak
and flatpak-builder
installed. Follow the
instructions for your distribution on flathub. The
instructions there only cover the installation of flatpak
, but
flatpak-builder
should be the same.
Build and Install
Once you have flatpak
and flatpak-builder
installed:
git clone git://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage.git
cd PyBitmessage/
git submodule update --init --recursive
flatpak-builder --install --user -install-deps-from=flathub --force-clean --state-dir=build/.flatpak-builder build/_flatpak org.bitmessage.PyBitmessage.json
This will install PyBitmessage to your local flatpak user repository, but it takes a while to compile because QT4 and PyQt4 have to be build, among others.
Run
When installation is done you can launch PyBitmessage via the command line:
flatpak run -v org.bitmessage.PyBitmessage
Flatpak also exports a .desktop
file, so you should be able to find and launch
PyBitmessage via the application launcher of your Desktop (Gnome, KDE, ...).
Export
You can create a single file "bundle", which allows you to copy and install the PyBitmessage flatpak on other devices of the same architecture as the build machine.
Create a local flatpak repository
flatpak-builder --repo=build/_flatpak_repo --force-clean --state-dir=build/.flatpak-builder build/_flatpak packages/flatpak/org.bitmessage.PyBitmessage.json
This will create a local flatpak repository in build/_flatpak_repo/
.
Create a bundle
flatpak build-bundle build/_flatpak_repo build/pybitmessage.flatpak org.bitmessage.PyBitmessage
This will create a pybitmessage.flatpak
bundle file in the build/
directory.
This bundle can be copied to other systems or installed locally:
flatpak install pybitmessage.flatpak
The application can be run using flatpak:
flatpak run org.bitmessage.PyBitmessage
It can then be uninstalled with this command:
flatpak uninstall org.bitmessage.PyBitmessage
This way of building an application is very convenient when preparing flatpaks for testing on another system of the same processor architecture.
Cleanup
If you want to free up disk space you can remove the Sdk
runtime again:
flatpak uninstall org.freedesktop.Sdk//18.08
You can also delete the build
directory again.