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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi

I was wondering if I should name the new macos builds org.qgis.qgis4 (they
are still org.qgis.qgis3).

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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