Re: Frescobaldi+LilyPond flatpak package now available

[Federico Bruni]

Hi Martin

Perhaps you added the flathub repository as root using the --user 
switch? (wrong)

Can you paste the output of this command both as root and as normal 
user?

 flatpak remotes

I have this as normal user:

$ flatpak remotes
Name Options
flathub system
flathub-beta user

Did you read this page?
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html#system-versus-user

You shouldn't be root to install any flatpak application. I can't 
remember if adding the repository at system level requires root 
privileges.
In a nutshell, if you add a repository using the --user switch, any 
application installed from that repository will be installed at user 
level and available only to that user; otherwise the default is system 
level.



Il giorno gio 5 nov 2020 alle 21:47, J Martin Rushton 
<martinrushton56@btinternet.com> ha scritto:
> 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