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Create a flatpak for your Electron app
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Can't build flatpak on Linux x64 #14

Closed fmarzocca closed 6 years ago

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

What version of electron-installer-flatpak are you using? 0.6.0

What version of node and npm are you using? 4.2.6 3.5.2 What operating system are you using? Linux Mint 18.1

What actually happened? npm-debug.log

The application has been built with electron packager and it runs fine in its tree. I have also built a debian package with electron-installer-debian, but I can't get a flatpak...

ptomato commented 6 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to report the problem. Can you point me to where I can find MeteoSurf so that I can debug it a bit more? Unfortunately the debug log isn't giving me too much information.

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

The desktop app is not in distribution, still on development (this ticket is one of the problems). The webapp (only for mobile devices) is here: http://bit.ly/meteo-surf The description web page is: http://marzocca.net/linux/meteosurf_en.html (but I'm sure you don't need those)...

The electron app itself is very trivial, an edited version of the "getting-started" app.

Thanks

ptomato commented 6 years ago

Maybe you could post the trivial electron app in a gist?

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

here it is: https://gist.github.com/fmarzocca/a9412fea3b62cf0b2c9587afb3e19ce3

ptomato commented 6 years ago

If you can run it again with DEBUG=flatpak-bundler npm run linux-flatpak that would provide more information. Looking at what flatpak-bundler does internally, it may be that the org.freedesktop.Platform and org.freedesktop.Sdk runtimes aren't installed on your system. Flatpak-bundler should install them automatically, but a workaround could be to install them manually before you start.

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

This is the new log npm-debug.log

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

this was the full stdout of the command: https://gist.github.com/fmarzocca/3a1dfdd8fd2411965519659a04f14e7e

ptomato commented 6 years ago

Thanks. The stdout showed what might be the problem. Do you actually have the flatpak command line tool installed on your system and available in your PATH? The same error happens to me if the tool can't be found.

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

No, I just installed the flatpak module with npm:

npm install -g electron-installer-flatpak

... What else?

ptomato commented 6 years ago

You need flatpak support on your system. According to https://flatpak.org/getting.html "Flatpak support is built into Linux Mint 18.3 and newer." I see you have 18.1, so the PPA in these instructions might help you?

fmarzocca commented 6 years ago

I will upgrade to 18.3 and let you know.

Thanks!

ptomato commented 6 years ago

OK, thanks! Feel free to reopen this or file another issue if you still have problems after upgrading.