Release as Flatpak

[sebasmonia]

I was able to run the AppImage version but it would be really nice if this could be installed as a flatpak, even better if it were on Flathub.

Thank you!

[iongion]

My plan is to only support flatpak at a point, the amount of bundle formats is really hard to deal with and it takes a lot of resources.

Most likely next release will have full flatpak support

[sebasmonia]

If it is planned, feel free to close this issue.

[scottAnselmo]

Best to keep this issue open until Flatpak support is released. That way those tracking this issue get pinged when this issue is closed because said release has happened and they can go off and add the source (e.g. Flathub) to their package manager

[iongion]

Sure, I'll keep it open, just made it able to build

• https://github.com/iongion/podman-desktop-companion/blob/main/src/app/electron-builder.yml#L14

[iongion]

Here it is, initial flatpak support

https://github.com/iongion/podman-desktop-companion/releases/tag/4.0.3-rc.2

Not yet on flathub as I need more testing, it would be really helpful if you could give it a shot.

[scottAnselmo]

Done some basic testing on Fedora Kinoite 35. Prompt to create container works in terminal. Container instantly shows up in GUI. Able to delete containers and images from GUI. Able to create and delete Secrets and Volumes. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is Create Machine. If there's any additional unit testing you'd like me to do please let me know.

All in all, I have to say this is a very useful project and I imagine it'll become more so as more and more operating systems explore immutable architecture increasing the need for Flatpak and podman (e.g. Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite servers running Jellyfin via podman)

[sebasmonia]

Tested in Silverblue, everything seems to work ok on initial testing (including listing images, which didn't work in the previous release).

Will try to use some more today!

[iongion]

Closing this - feel free to re-open, maybe open one with publishing to flatpak hub :)