Hi recently I had two users of my kicadStepUp WB reporting the inability to read a specific directory written by the installer of KiCAD.
Here a link to the issue: https://github.com/easyw/kicadStepUpMod/issues/140
FreeCAD cannot open the following file folder:
I can't speak for Snap but I use Flatpak extensively (fedora Silverblue).
flatpaks are isolated from the underlying operating system. /usr is present in the flatpak environment but it is provided by so-called runtimes and SDKs.
Generally, the user's home directory is accessible but directories like ~/.cache ~/.config and ~/.local/share are referenced under e.g ~/.var/app/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/cache ~/.var/app/.org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/config and ~/.var/app/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/data respectively.
Internally, within the flatpak, application related files are present under /app/.
Special files and other system resources are accessed either through permissions set for the flatpak or "portals" which implement special functionality.
Under a flatpak environment, an installed workbench would be found under ~/.var/app/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/data/FreeCAD/Mod/ and the files you would expect under /usr/share/ would reside under /app/share/.
If you want to poke around a flatpak to examine its contents, after installation, execute e.g. flatpak run --command=sh org.freecadweb.FreeCAD and use regular Linux ls etc. commands to look at things. To finish just execute exit
neildarlow wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:54 pm
I can't speak for Snap but I use Flatpak extensively (fedora Silverblue).
flatpaks are isolated from the underlying operating system. /usr is present in the flatpak environment but it is provided by so-called runtimes and SDKs.
Generally, the user's home directory is accessible but directories like ~/.cache ~/.config and ~/.local/share are referenced under e.g ~/.var/app/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/cache ~/.var/app/.org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/config and ~/.var/app/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD/data respectively.
Internally, within the flatpak, application related files are present under /app/.
Special files and other system resources are accessed either through permissions set for the flatpak or "portals" which implement special functionality.
@neildarlow ,
a file in
/usr/share/kicad/3dmodels/Resistor_SMD.3dshapes/R_0805_2012Metric.step
location would be enabled to be accessed from the FreeCAD flatpack open menu?
@easyw-fc You have a problem because someone using FreeCAD in flatpak format might also be using KiCad in flatpak format. The resources contained in one flatpak wouldn't be available in the other.
One possibility that might help you is that KiCad as a flatpak is composed of a number of extension packages. There might be some method to access those extensions from the FreeCAD flatpak by some modification.
Here is the output from flatpak list | grep -i kicad on my system:
KiCad org.kicad.KiCad 6.0.7 stable flathub system
KiCad Footprint Libraries org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Footprints stable flathub system
KiCad 3D Model Libraries org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Packages3D stable flathub system
KiCad Schematic Symbol Libraries org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Symbols stable flathub system
KiCad Templates org.kicad.KiCad.Library.Templates stable flathub system
You can see that the various KiCad components which would normally be separate packages on a traditional GNU/Linux distribution are also packaged separately for the KiCad flatpak. How you would perform the integration I cannot help you with unfortunately.
perhaps it's better to open an issue in the flatpak repo for this: github.com/flathub/org.freecadweb.FreeCAD
I'm not sure how flatpak can get permission for such directories, IIRC the openscad flatpak can be used from within the freecad flatpak so it might be posible to do the same with kicad, it might just need to be declared somehwere in the freecad flatpak.
