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

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

I think this has to do with the fact that I did not change the id/name of the application.
It's still called "org.qgis.qgis"...
Maybe I should call it something like "org.qgis.qgis.next" or so? "org.qgis.qgis.qt6'?
Then I think it will not conflict with the normal flatpak qgis...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 16-06-2025 15:08, Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) wrote:
> Thank you, this is super useful!
> 
> Is there a way to make it not mask my system QGIS? After I installed this on Manjaro or Ubuntu, it took over "QGIS" in the launcher menu. The only way I could still run my normal QGIS was via "qgis" in the terminal.
> 
> I expect this to be some configuration setting of flatpak itself, but found literally nothing via Google. So maybe it is something flatpak build specific or my Google fu has broken.
> 
> Cheers, Hannes
> 
> On 6/11/25 16:48, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Based on the excellent Flatpak work of Aleix Pol (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
>>
>> If you do not have flatpak/flathub available, make sure you do by doing the steps at
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
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