OneDriveGUI on Flatpak

This project contains files to build OneDriveGUI as a Flatpak app.

Disclaimer

This project is a prototype for helping the author to create a Flatpak app.

How to build the app

1 - Prepare the environment

Ensure you have the following commands installed on your system:

git
flatpak
flatpak-builder

Ensure you have the flathub repo enabled:

$ flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Clone this project on your computer:

$ git clone https://github.com/mbugni/OneDriveGUIFlatpak.git

2 - Build and install the app

From the project directory run the command:

$ flatpak-builder --user --verbose --install --install-deps-from=flathub --force-clean \
  build io.github.bpozdena.OneDriveGUI.yaml

See flatpak documentation for more info.

The first build can take 5 minutes, it depends on your machine performances. It install the app, making it available for your user in the system.

NOTE: if you want to install the app system wide, remove the --user option and prepend sudo in the above commands.

3 - Run the app

You can run the OneDriveGUI launching it from your favorite desktop, or manually by using the flatpak command:

$ flatpak run io.github.bpozdena.OneDriveGUI

OneDriveGUI files

Data files are in folder ~/.var/app/io.github.bpozdena.OneDriveGUI/data. Config files are in folder ~/.var/app/io.github.bpozdena.OneDriveGUI/config.