[QGIS-Developer] Experimental Qt6 Flatpak build available for Linux/Python devs (for updating plugins)

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi Tim,

The link works for me right now. Maybe it's something on your side?

http://duif.net/qgis-qt6.flatpak

Raymond


On 6/11/25 21:47, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Hi Richard
> 
> Very nice to see this! I tried to download it though and it seems to not 
> open the link. I will test on NixOS....
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM Germán Carrillo via QGIS-Developer 
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Thanks a lot Richard and Aleix, it works like a charm on Ubuntu Noble.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Germán
> 
>     El mié, 11 jun 2025 a las 10:02, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-
>     Developer (<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-
>     developer at lists.osgeo.org>>) escribió:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         Based on the excellent Flatpak work of Aleix Pol (https://
>         github.com/flathub/org.qgis.qgis <https://github.com/flathub/
>         org.qgis.qgis>), I managed to create a runnable Qt6 build of
>         QGIS for Linux's (with flatpak available)
> 
>         My idea is that Linux users of distro's without the needed
>         dependencies can run QGIS and test/update their Python plugins
>         with this build.
>         This flatpak build (master) is (thanks to Aleix!) having 3D and
>         PDAL/cloudpoint available too.
> 
>         Note that this is my first flatpak build, probably things go/are
>         wrong, and I'm not sure how to do further/future distribution...
> 
>         But for now: to run/try it:
> 
>         Download the single-bundle file from
> 
>         http://duif.net/qgis-qt6.flatpak <http://duif.net/qgis-qt6.flatpak>
> 
>         If you do not have flatpak/flathub available, make sure you do
>         by doing the steps at
> 
>         https://flatpak.org/setup/ <https://flatpak.org/setup/> for your
>         distro, to
>         1) install flatpak and
>         2) make the flathub repo available for needed runtimes and sdk's.
> 
>         Now go to the qgis-qt6.flatpak file and INSTALL it:
> 
>         flatpak install --runtime --include-sdk qgis-qt6.flatpak
> 
>         (this will install the KDE runtime and sdk and then finally the
>         qgis-qt6 system wide)
> 
>         Then to run it:
> 
>         flatpak run org.qgis.qgis
> 
>         I hope this is useful for anybody.
> 
>         Have to talk to Aleix for more finesses to maybe share this on
>         flathub or with his Qt5 build.
> 
>         If you want to build it yourself there is some info in: https://
>         github.com/flathub/org.qgis.qgis/issues/428 <https://github.com/
>         flathub/org.qgis.qgis/issues/428>
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>         Richard Duivenvoorde
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