Flatpak build notes

Instructions for building Buzz Flatpak.

General Flatpak notes https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/

Build

Use code from https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz

Install req2flatpak by running pip install req2flatpak

1. Prepare pyptoject.toml file

• Remove extra source used for Windows
  • Search for "torch" remove tool.poetry.source and dependency for "2.2.1+cu121"
  • Run poetrty lock

2. Export requirements.txt

• poetry export --without-hashes --format=requirements.txt > requirements.txt

3Generate dependency .json

• req2flatpak --requirements-file requirements.txt --target-platforms 312-x86_64 > buzz-pip-dependencies.json

4. Add / Update buzz-captions in the the main manifest.

5. Build

flatpak run org.flatpak.Builder --force-clean --sandbox --user --install --install-deps-from=flathub --ccache --mirror-screenshots-url=https://dl.flathub.org/media/ --repo=repo builddir io.github.chidiwilliams.Buzz.yml

If some package is missing during the build, add it manually to the buzz-pip-dependencies.json file.