gajim-plural/flatpak

Install Gajim via Flatpak

Prerequisites:

You need to have flatpak and flatpak-builder installed. For this example, we use git for downloading/updating Gajim's sources.

Download Gajim's sources

In this example, we do a git clone of the repository, so you need to have git installed. Alternatively, you can also download the sources from our Gitlab via webbrowser.

git clone https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim.git ~/Gajim

cd ~/Gajim

Note: Source tarballs and snapshots do not include 'org.gajim.Gajim.json', which is necessary for installation via Flatpak.

Install Gajim and dependencies

Replace install path ~/Gajim/gajim_flatpak with an install path of your choice.

Note: Remove --user if you want a system-wide installation.

1. flatpak --user remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo
2. flatpak --user install gnome org.gnome.Platform//3.28
3. flatpak --user install gnome org.gnome.Sdk//3.28
4. flatpak-builder --repo=gajim_flatpak_repo ~/Gajim/gajim_flatpak ~/Gajim/org.gajim.Gajim.json
5. flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify gajim_flatpak_repo gajim_flatpak_repo
6. flatpak --user install gajim_flatpak_repo org.gajim.Gajim
7. flatpak run org.gajim.Gajim

Thats it, you are now running Gajim via Flatpak!

How to update

Update Gajim's sources

In this example, we use git to update the repository. You can also download the sources from our Gitlab via webbrowser.

cd ~/Gajim

git pull --rebase

Remove previous Flatpak directory

rm -r ~/Gajim/gajim_flatpak

Install and update Gajim

1. flatpak-builder --repo=gajim_flatpak_repo ~/Gajim/gajim_flatpak ~/Gajim/org.gajim.Gajim.json
2. flatpak --user update
3. flatpak run org.gajim.Gajim

Gajim is now updated.