README.md

FEMM 4.2 Flatpak Unofficial

This is a flatpak version of FEMM 4.2 from David Meeker, Ph.D.

My effort was only to pack essential packages to run wine and provide a script to download and install FEMM.

Install

Flatpak is native for a majority of distributions. If this is not your case, you can install flatpak.

Download platpak and install:

flatpak install --user info.femm.unofficial.flatpak

First time it will adjust everything and download femm to install. It can take a while. You can run directly from your application menu, however it is better to keep track of the installation process. My suggestion is to run it from CLI.

flatpak run info.femm.unofficial

It will also copy mod mfiles to work with octave.

Known bugs

Flatpak may not install i386 runtime for you. If so, you can have a missing /app/bin/wine.

If so:

flatpak install --user org.freedesktop.Platform.Compat.i386/x86_64/21.08

I'm working on a repository...

Octave

It just set everything automatcally. Just add the path

addpath("~/.local/share/femm42-flatpak/drive_c/femm42/mfiles/");

Python

Same as octave, just point to the correct folder.

femm.openfemm(winepath='/home/<change_to_your_username>/.local/share/femm42-flatpak/', femmpath='/home/<change_to_your_username>/.local/share/femm42-flatpak/drive_c/femm42/bin/')

Building your own flatpak

git clone https://github.com/thalesmaoa/femm-unofficial.git

cd femm-unofficial

Install flatpak builder.

sudo apt install flatpak-builder

Prepare for compiling wine. It's gonna take a while.

flatpak-builder --force-clean femm-unofficial info.femm.unofficial-manifest.yml

To test:

flatpak-builder --run femm-unofficial info.femm.unofficial-manifest.yml femm.sh

Repository

Build local repository

flatpak-builder --repo=thalesmaoa --force-clean femm-unofficial info.femm.unofficial-manifest.yml

Install

flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify thalesmaoa thalesmaoa

List local packages repository

flatpak remotes

Install the package

flatpak --user install thalesmaoa info.femm.unofficial

Running the program

flatpak run info.femm.unofficial

Single-file bundles

flatpak build-bundle thalesmaoa info.femm.unofficial.flatpak info.femm.unofficial

Acknowledge

• fastrizwaan for flatpak-wine.