Package as a Flatpak app (and publish to Flathub)

[tomtung]

I wished to use qolibri on my Steam Deck, but found out that although Steam OS is based on Arch, it often doesn't play well with pacman-installed packages and using Flatpak is strongly preferred.

I was wondering if it's possible to publish qolibri as a Flatpak. Although Flatpak has its issues, it should help make the software more accessible to different Linux distributions.

[mvf]

Thanks for the well-researched report, I'll look into it. For now, qolibri already runs on unmodified SteamOS with some mild tinkering:

• Grab qolibri .deb file from Releases
• Grab libeb16 .deb file from Debian
• Extract the following files from the .deb packages:
  • qolibri
  • libeb.so.16 (just a symlink)
  • libeb.so.16.0.0

With all 3 files in the current directory, start like this:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./qolibri