Unofficial Publii Flatpak

Unofficial, work in progress, rudimentary, experimental & probably unstable Flatpak build for Publii - in other words, use it if you know you can handle errors.

Prerequisites

Before building, you need to install Flatpak, flatpak-builder, and ImageMagick:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak flatpak-builder imagemagick

Add the Flathub repository if not already added:

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

Dynamic Version Handling

The build-flatpak.sh script dynamically fetches the latest Publii AppImage from the official website. It does not automatically update the io.publii.Publii.metainfo.xml (yet).

Permissions

The Flatpak has the following permissions:

• Network access (for publishing sites)
• Documents directory access (for storing sites and projects)
• Desktop integration (notifications, file chooser)
• Hardware acceleration (OpenGL/Vulkan, can't hurt because of Electron probably?)
• Session bus access (for... things?)

Known Issues

• Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket - found in console, not sure if this is normal in sandboxed environments
• Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" - not researched yet