Flatpak i2pd version in old (2.5 from 2023)

[rikanox]

I installed i2pd via Flatpak on Wnonix Worstation 17 (Debian 12)

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub website.i2pd.i2pd

But Flatpak gives only the old i2pd 2.5 from 2023. I2p version is 0.9.61.

[anikey-from-i2p]

It's not 2.5, it's 2.50 (different thing - 2.50.0 is from 2023, 2.5.0 is from 2016).

It looks like @r4sas is the maintainer of the flatpak: https://github.com/flathub/website.i2pd.i2pd

(And other people can submit PRs, so if anyone else wants to deal with the flatpak, please do so.)

Also, i have no idea about flatpak specifics, but it seems like this thing uses X11 and that makes flathub say its "potentially unsafe (legacy window system)". Related to this: PurpleI2P/i2pd-qt#93

EDIT: Found this: flathub/website.i2pd.i2pd#21

It can't be updated because i2pd_qt is not updated by it's author for an year. I have just bumped i2pd, but qt part is causing crash at start.

EDIT2: But the repo now seems to be more active than "a year ago": https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd-qt

[rikanox]

Thank you, @anikey-from-i2p

the repo now seems to be more active than "a year ago"

Last i2pd-qt was 2.52.0 (May 2024). Last i2pd-qt in Flatpak is 2.50.0 (Dec 2023). I tried to install i2pd 2.55.0 via deb files and repo. But it was now working in Whonix Workstation 17. The only one way is Flatpak for this OS.

[anikey-from-i2p]

The only one way is Flatpak for this OS.

Are you sure about that?

If you want to run i2pd sandboxed, you can use tools like bwrap (bubblewrap) (which is AFAIK what flatpak uses internally).

If deb does not work, try compiling from source.

[r4sas]

i2pd-qt and flatpack package was abandoned a bit because qt app has lack of recent changes for gui. I'll update the app, but I can't guarantee that it will work correctly.