add a flatpak to flathub.org to allow linux multidistribution installation of the latest version

[Vladimir Benes]

I desperately miss MIXXX at flathub.org. It would be absolutely fantastic to see the latest and greatest version there available for any single distribution in Linux world.

Do you think it's possible?

Thanks,
Vladimir

[Uwe Klotz (uklotzde-deactivatedaccount)]

It would be great if someone could help us distributing Mixxx bundled as a flatpak. This would make Mixxx independent of distribution release cycles and we would have more control over the bundled dependencies.

As far as I remember there is no flatpak support for Qt 4. One more argument to start upgrading to Qt 5 soon after Mixxx 2.1 has been released.

[Vladimir Benes (vbenes)]

I've discussed this with one colleague of mine and he said that it's possible to use QT4. But you need to bundle it with Mixxx. Not sure here if it's allowed by licence.

some howto here:
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-builder.html

sadly I am not experienced in building fltapaks.

[Be (be.ing)]

See also: AppImage packaging (Bug #1621181)

[Vladimir Benes (vbenes)]

aaaaha, we have one already, yaaay!

still one issue there as it's not listed in flathub (but is in Software where I have found it!!)

https://github.com/flathub/org.mixxx.Mixxx/issues/10

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/8997