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Glest Flatpak Repo Creator

Generate all the files to create a Flatpak release of Glest.

More about flatpak: https://flatpak.org/

Flatpak project: https://github.com/flatpak

Install Glest Using Flatpak

1. Install Flatpak for your linux distribution: https://flatpak.org/setup/ (with flathub).
2. Download Glest.flatpak from https://github.com/glest/io.glest.Glest/releases
3. Install by double-clicking on Glest.flatpak to install using your graphical package manager, or run flatpak install Glest.flatpak in the terminal.
4. Run Glest from your menu, or in the terminal run flatpak run io.glest.Glest

Notes:

• amd64/x86_64 linux required.
• Glest userdata is stored in $HOME/.var/app/io.glest.Glest/.glest.

Build Glest Using Flatpak

1. Install Flatpak for your Linux distribution: https://flatpak.org/setup/
2. Install the freedesktop tools: flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//18.08 org.freedesktop.Sdk//18.08.
3. Clone this git repo: git clone --recursive https://github.com/glest/io.glest.Glest.git. It is important to use the --recursive flag when cloning.
4. Inside the repo, run this command flatpak-builder --repo=Glest --force-clean Glest-build io.glest.Glest.json. This will build the repo and save it into the folder Glest.
5. Build the Glest package by running flatpak build-bundle Glest Glest.flatpak io.glest.Glest. This will create the package Glest.flatpak.
6. Install Glest using the instructions above.