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Linux Flatpak package of vimix

Prerequirement: install flatpak

Instructions are at https://flatpak.org/setup/

e.g. for Ubuntu:

sudo apt install flatpak

Install vimix releases from Flathub

If you followed all instructions of the flatpak setup, vimix should be in the list of packages.

flatpak install --user vimix

Build local beta flatpack package of vimix

If you want to have the latest developper version of vimix (before releases), you can build a vimix flatpak yourself.

This way, the application vimix is still sandboxed (i.e. not installing libs in your system), removable (entirely free space after remove) and updatable (just re-compile to update).

1. Install flatpak build environments

If not already installed, install the builder and the flathub repository:

sudo apt install flatpak-builder    
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Install the runtime environments:

flatpak install org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64
flatpak install org.gnome.Platform

Select version 45 in the list of proposed version

2. Build vimix flatpak

These settings of git are needed to enable clone of local repos during build:

git config --global --add protocol.file.allow always

Get the flatpak manifest for vimix:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brunoherbelin/vimix/master/flatpak/io.github.brunoherbelin.Vimix.json

Launch the build of the flatpak:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build io.github.brunoherbelin.Vimix.json

The build will be quite long as some dependencies are also re-build from source. However, the build of dependencies is kept in cache; rebuilding vimix will subsequently be much faster.

Run vimix flatpak

If all goes well, the package will have been generated and be able to run. The vimix app icon should be available.

To run from command line:

flatpak run io.github.brunoherbelin.Vimix

Uninstall vimix flatpak

flatpak uninstall vimix

Developper information

The flatpak manifest for flathub is at https://github.com/flathub/io.github.brunoherbelin.Vimix

To build the vimix flatpak with code from local folder (debugging), change the following:

    {
        "name": "vimix",
        "buildsystem": "cmake",
        "config-opts": [
            "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"
        ],
        "sources": [
            {
            "type":"dir",
            "path": "/home/bhbn/Development/vimix",
            }
        ]
    }