Is there any progress towards making Thunderbird available? Also, Musescore is a GREAT program for notating music. Wonder if that could be put in the line-up?
Everything works fine until the 3rd command. It says flatpak-builder is not bash: flatpak-builder: command not found. Is it possible flatpak-builder is not included in Endless?
A couple notes about Thunderbirdā¦
We donāt currently distribute flatpak-builder with Endless OS. We are working on a release in January that will make many developer tools available.
Marioās GitHub repo includes (in the ābundlesā directory) pre-built flatpaks that can be downloaded and installed from the command line. For example:
flatpak install --bundle org.mozilla.Thunderbird.flatpak
You would also need to install the appropriate GNOME runtime that matches the version you choose. For example, if using the GNOME 3.20 version:
wget https://sdk.gnome.org/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
flatpak remote-add --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/repo/
flatpak install gnome org.gnome.Platform 3.20
Then, you can add it to the Endless desktop using:
eos-add-to-desktop org.mozilla.Thunderbird
That said, there are some limitations with the current flatpak, especially with regard to opening attachments due to the sandboxing in flatpaks. We do hope that Mozilla will eventually support a flatpak distribution directly and solve these issues.
For now, Iād recommend downloading directly from Mozilla and unzipping to a location in your home directory, so that you have the fully working experience. Iām hoping to get a chance to write up a script to help automate this sometime soon, In the meantime, if you are technically minded, you might take a look at the script I have that does this for Firefox (including creation of a .desktop file so it can be integrated with the Endless desktop): https://github.com/endlessm/eos-customer-support/blob/master/eos-install-firefox.
Regarding musescore, that looks really interesting! Thanks for the suggestion. The ideal situation would be if the upstream development team could distribute and support a flatpak release, for example built against the GNOME runtime. You might want to reach out to that team to see if they could get it on their roadmap.
Roddy
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You can download the Musecore AppImage package directly from their website (you want the 64bit version) then right click on the download, choose āPropertiesā -> āPermissionsā and select āAllow Executing File As A Programā. Then double click on the AppImage file and it will run on Endless.
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