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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

Ok this worked

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

Opening the link in my browser not so much...

Thanks

Tim

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM Raymond Nijssen via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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