Flatpak version

[theScrabi]

Hay guys, I had to learn for finals, so I'm procrastinating and wrote a flatpak build file for electrum.
It is not quite 100% working yet as you can not open the open file dialog in the release version, but the rest is working so far. I am not going to send it as a Pullrequest here since buildfiles do not belong into this repository, but in one over at flathub.

Thus the buildfiles are stored in this zip file here:
flatpak_buildfile.zip

This is what the README.md in the file is saying:

---

Electrum flatpak buildfile

1. Install dependencies with flatpak install org.kde.Sdk//5.12 org.kde.Platform//5.12
2. Build it with flatpak-builder build-dir org.electrum.electrum.json. Sometiems you have to install eu-strip command before it can compile.
3. Run the test build with flatpak-builder --run build-dir org.electrum.electrum.json electrum
4. Install the test build following this description..

Known issues: In the installed app you cann not open the file diealog since it is showing

(python3:5): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 13:30:41.583: g_unix_is_system_fs_type: assertion 'fs_type != NULL && *fs_type != '\0'' failed

(python3:5): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 13:30:41.583: g_unix_is_system_device_path: assertion 'device_path != NULL && *device_path != '\0'' failed

Segmentation fault (Speicherabzug geschrieben) 

If you are willing to put this into flathub.org you may want to get a repostiroy for the buildfiles here. You may also add a manifest and other stuff before releasing.
Please node that I am not a flatpak guy and not capable of maintaining this script. Please get in contatct with flathub members instead.

[bauerj]

Hey,

thanks for working on this! Sadly, we are no "Flatpack guys" ourselves so we won't be able to maintain the package either. It would probably make more sense if someone who's experienced in maintaining Flatpack packages would take care of that.

Would you be willing to get in touch with Flatpack members to get this added as an unofficial package?

[theScrabi]

Uff I am kind of on top with all of my projects my self. Lets see if someone else is willing to look into this first.

[theScrabi]

All right, I opened up a pull request at flathub:
flathub/flathub#837

[A6GibKm]

I am making a flatpak at https://github.com/A6GibKm/flathub/tree/org.electrum.electrum, will push soon.

[A6GibKm]

I made a PR to flathub flathub/flathub#1102.

[A6GibKm]

A 256x256 (or a scalable svg) icon should be added upstream. I am not sure if flathub can be builded without one.

The setup.py invoked the variable sys.prefix which was set to /usr, I had to change it to flatpak's /app, I think the setup should use /usr/local anyways.

Any chance of including the appdata in the distributed electrum? This is part of he freedesktop spec and many distros use it.

[A6GibKm]

At https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.electrum.electrum

[ralyodio]

I get an error.

$ flatpak run org.electrum.electrum
Gtk-Message: 18:30:00.128: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 18:30:00.128: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (8 8 8 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 8 8 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 1 8 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 1 1 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 1 1 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (8 8 8 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 8 8 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 1 8 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 1 1 0)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig (1 1 1 0)
Could not initialize GLX

[yanchenko-igor]

i have an issue with flatpak version,

E | plugins.trezor.trezor | error importing trezorlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/lib/python3.7/site-packages/electrum/plugins/trezor/trezor.py", line 24, in <module>
    import trezorlib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'trezorlib'

Could you please include trezorlib? maybe as an extension if not everyone needs it?

[A6GibKm]

How do you add it to electrum?

[yanchenko-igor]

The simplest way is to build [full] instead of [fast] (in build command), I'm not sure how to make it an extension though, I never found a documentation.

[A6GibKm]

I am having problems adding cython, any help would be appreciated.

[yanchenko-igor]

I am having problems adding cython, any help would be appreciated.

what error do you get? I managed to build it actually.

[A6GibKm]

  Running setup.py install for Cython ... -Error: module python3-Cython: Child process exited with code 137

Note that things are different when building a flatpak.

[yanchenko-igor]

I can successfully build cython with this module

{
    "name": "python3-cython",
    "buildsystem": "simple",
    "build-commands": [
        "pip3 install --no-index --find-links=\"file://${PWD}\" --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} cython"
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "type": "file",
            "url": "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d9/82/d01e767abb9c4a5c07a6a1e6f4d5a8dfce7369318d31f48a52374094372e/Cython-0.29.15.tar.gz",
            "sha256": "60d859e1efa5cc80436d58aecd3718ff2e74b987db0518376046adedba97ac30"
        }
    ]
}

[A6GibKm]

For some reason I can't even build

id: org.electrum.electrum
runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform
sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk
runtime-version: "19.08"
command: electrum
finish-args:
        - --socket=x11
        - --socket=pulseaudio
        - --device=dri
        - --share=ipc
        - --share=network
modules:
  - name: python3-cython
    buildsystem: simple
    build-commands:
        - pip3 install --no-index --find-links="file://${PWD}" --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} cython
    sources:
      - type: file
        url: "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d9/82/d01e767abb9c4a5c07a6a1e6f4d5a8dfce7369318d31f48a52374094372e/Cython-0.29.15.tar.gz"
        sha256: 60d859e1efa5cc80436d58aecd3718ff2e74b987db0518376046adedba97ac30

[A6GibKm]

Please lets discuss this here flathub/org.electrum.electrum#6

[A6GibKm]

@bauerj @theScrabi since there is already a working flatpak build at flathub/org.electrum.electrum this issue should be closed.