Re: Frescobaldi+LilyPond flatpak package now available

[J Martin Rushton]

Hi Federico,

I welcome this since I've been having problems with Frescobaldi under 
both CentOS 7 and 8 for a while.

I followed the setup guide on the host CentOS8 machine and downloaded 
the flathub repository file.  First problem: I had to be root to install 
it - I thought flatpak was meant to be at user level?

I then installed Frescobaldi (using cut-and-paste).  If I tried to run 
it as a user I got the message: "error: 
app/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi/x86_64/master not installed".  As a test 
I tried running it as root (I know, bad practice) and the window opened, 
but then hung and would not die.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Martin

On 05/11/2020 20:48, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'm happy to announce that Frescobaldi is now available for Linux users 
> also as flatpak on Flathub:
> https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi
>
> Advantages:
> - LilyPond is bundled, so it's a very simple installation.
> - All runtime dependencies are included.
> - Sandbox.
>
> Bugs:
> - Doumentation browser is not working.
> There's something wrong in the way I built PyQtWebEngine...
>
>
> Current stable installed size is 287 MB. (not including the KDE runtime)
> Current beta release shipping lilypond 2.21.80 is 245 MB (no need to 
> include python2).
>
> Installing the stable version should be straightforward.
> If you want to install the beta version (which currently has only the 
> "stable RC" of lilypond), run these commands:
>
> flatpak remote-add --user flathub-beta 
> https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
> flatpak install --user flathub-beta org.frescobaldi.Frescobaldi
>
>
> Cheers
> Federico

--
J Martin Rushton MBCS