#31 Package Molsketch as Flatpak for Linux

[Andy the Great]

Hi,
I would like to let you know that I am packaging Molsketch as Flatpak for linux.
Flatpak is software management and deployment for Linux distros.

https://github.com/kevinsmia1939/flathub/tree/net.sourceforge.Molsketch

[Hendrik Vennekate]

Hi Andy!
Alright, I'll look into it (I used to offer appimages, but it got a little unwieldy). But what is flathub? Or does the link you provided indicate that Kevin already created a flatpak in the flathub repo?
I'm a little confused... ;)

[Andy the Great]

Hi,
That was the build manifest required to make Flatpak. I am that kevin.
Flathub is a repository that publish these apps.
https://flathub.org/home
I am submitting it to Flathub, but it is in testing, not accepted yet.
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/3021#issuecomment-1100722720=

[Andy the Great]

Hi,

The first Flatpak test build is here.
Since you are on openSUSE TW just do.
sudo zypper in flatpak flatpak-builder
flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/84532/net.sourceforge.Molsketch.flatpakref
flatpak run net.sourceforge.Molsketch

[Andy the Great]

If you would like to build Flatpak from my current git repo.

git clone https://github.com/kevinsmia1939/flathub/tree/net.sourceforge.Molsketch

cd to the directory that the .yaml file was downloaded.

flatpak-builder --install --force-clean --user build net.sourceforge.molsketch.yaml

To run it.
flatpak run net.sourceforge.molsketch

[Andy the Great]

Right now I did install openbabel and molsketch in the flatpak manifest.
But openbabel is not found.

The preference is set to

"/app/lib/molsketch/libobabeliface.so"

Then I remove the "" which left with.
/app/lib/molsketch/libobabeliface.so

The openbabel library is found.