Flatpak on Xperia 10 II - Aarch64

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#1

Is it possible to install 64bit Flatpak Support for Aarch64 Devices such as the Xperia 10 II following the instructions on GitHub - sailfishos-flatpak/main: Documentation and issues and simply replace the command to add the repository by
devel-su ssu addrepo rinigus-flatpak http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/rinigus:/flatpak/sailfish_latest_aarch64/aarch64/

as rinigus seems to has provided a version for aarch64?
I do not understand what the tbuilder from GitHub - sailfishos-flatpak/tbuilder-project: TBuilder project is for. Why couldn’t I simply use the command
devel-su pkcon install flatpak-runner
?
Has anybody tried to install 64bit flatpak apps?

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#3

I tried installing flatpak on a xperia 10 II following the steps described.
pkcon repo-list
shows me that the flatpak package is activated. But
zypper in flatpak-runner
fails finding flatpak runner.
Is it because flatpak-runner is not available at https://sailfishos-flatpak.s3-website.pl-waw.scw.cloud/ anymore?

#4

As indicated above, aarch64 Flatpak is not working - tested on AOSP10/aarch64 based SFOS. However, builds are available at OBS now. See instructions at GitHub - sailfishos-flatpak/main: Documentation and issues and just replace arm repository with aarch64.

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#5

Okay thanks for the hint.
Is there a terminal command to remove the remove the repository again?
I now have a repo called “flatpak” as shown by pkcon that might be wrong or wont work.
Do I need to add some parameters to
pkcon repo-remove flatpak
as it results in an error

repository identifier and automatic removal required

#6

Hi Rinigus,
I’m trying to use your build from OBS for aarch64. It install successfully, but when I try to open an app, it says that the Wayland compositor does not provide any supported shell interface, along with the following error: Cannot get default EGL display: EGL_BAD_PARAMETER.
Also when installing any flatpak, I get the following error (not sure if it makes a difference): Warning: Not exporting file "package".xml of unsupported type..
Do you have any hints as to how this could be fixed?

#7

No, I haven’t worked on Flatpak for a while and it is still broken, as far as I know. I don’t have any plans to work on it either, so don’t expect it to be fixed unless someone steps in and will work on it.

#8

Okay, that’s a pity. Hopefully someone will. What would you think the next best option is to run Linux applications on sailfishos? Harbour-containers also does not support aarch64 as far as I can tell.

#9

Actually, I just tried installing angelfish and that opened. Now I saw an open issue about unsupported GTK/GDK applications, which may be the problem after all. Do I understand correctly that only Qt applications are supported then?

#10

@sailor28, GTK/GDK require newer Wayland composer. That’s what we don’t have. As for Qt apps, hardware acceleration is not supported and, as a result, I had issues with Angelfish rendering, for example. Also interaction with keyboard had some issues. All in all, I couldn’t fix it in any reasonable time and moved on to other projects.

As for alternatives for running Linux applications, maybe chroot solutions would work. But this I haven’t tried myself - some other users did.

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#11

Thanks for the clarification.

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