FreeCAD flatpak

[PrzemoF]

Tests doesn't run well on flatpak build - some /tmp directory problem.

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$ flatpak-builder --run test-build org.freecadweb.FreeCAD.yaml FreeCAD --run-test 0
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R14555 (Git shallow)
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
[..]
testSpace (TestArch.ArchTest) ... ok
testStairs (TestArch.ArchTest) ... ok
testStructure (TestArch.ArchTest) ... ok
testWall (TestArch.ArchTest) ... ok
testWindow (TestArch.ArchTest) ... ok

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ERROR: test_solver_framework (femtest.testsolverframework.SolverFrameWorkTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/freecad/Mod/Fem/femtest/testsolverframework.py", line 164, in test_solver_framework
    ret = testtools.compare_files(test_file_dir_elmer + 'ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO', solverframework_analysis_dir + 'ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO')
  File "/app/freecad/Mod/Fem/femtest/testtools.py", line 103, in compare_files
    file2 = open(file_name2, 'r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/FEM_unittests/FEM_solverframework/ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO'

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Ran 361 tests in 51.881s

FAILED (errors=1)
System exit

[mdhill]

Here's what I got:

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Ran 361 tests in 74.840s

OK
System exit

Have you seen flatpak 1.0.5? Maybe it's fixed:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ ... 01362.html

Available here:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/bui ... ID=1163448

[mdhill]

So I took the build folder that I use to run FreeCAD, and per the docs page, ran:

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flatpak-builder --repo (etc)
flatpak build-bundle (etc)

It took some trial and error to supply the expected paths, and instead of generating a signature, I used the Stable signature. When it was finished I had a roughly 500M file that I installed on another machine where it works!

[mdhill]

Another reference:

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/02/1 ... epository/

[mdhill]

PrzemoF, would this work with one of your nightly RPMs?

https://blog.fishsoup.net/2018/12/04/fl ... -now-live/

[PrzemoF]

I don't know, but I'll try to find out - thanks for the info!

Edit: COPR doesn't seem to be an option according to IRC #fedora-devel, but converting rpm (produced by COPR) to flatpak seems to be possible. A quick test yielded plenty of "magic" errors

[mdhill]

Flathub is now accepting beta repos:

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2019/02/1 ... thub-land/

[eszlari]

I updated the flatpak on Flathub to 0.18:

https://flathub.org/builds/#/builders/32/builds/1725

[NormandC]

Hi,

I just installed flatpak and FreeCAD and tested it quickly on Ubuntu 18.04. It does not comply to the desktop theme (which I suspect is a common issue with flatpak), but at least it's not as butt ugly as the snap package! This is a nice alternative to AppImage, and I think we should mention it on the Downloads page on the wiki and the website.

There is one tiny issue, the revision number is wrong:

OS: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.14555 (Git shallow)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 8ece48c)
Hash: 8ece48c70bb7438112aa0cccb892c2109ae53082
Python version: 2.7.15
Qt version: 5.12.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0

The correct revision number is 16093, I don't know if it's possible to fix that.

I followed the Ubuntu instructions on flatpak.org, after a reboot I was able to install the FreeCAD flatpak package from the Ubuntu Software Centre. Can't be much simpler than that.

FYI, the flatpak build uses the ~/.FreeCAD/Mod folder for the addons, but it does not seem to use it for the config files system.cfg and user.cfg, not sure where they are saved and a search found nothing. Quite puzzling! I'm interested in this because we often have to tell users to delete them to fix some odd issues.

Thanks eszlari!

[PrzemoF]

I had the same problem (shallow git copy) when building on fedora COPR. My solution is here:
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... pkg.macros