thunderbird-flatpak

Resources to build Mozilla Thunderbird as a flatpak.

Requirements:

• flatpak >= 0.6.6
• flatpak-builder >= 0.6.6
• org.gnome Platform and Sdk runtimes

Instructions:

(1) Install the flatpak repository for GNOME nightly:

  wget http://sdk.gnome.org/nightly/keys/nightly.gpg
  flatpak --user remote-add --gpg-import=nightly.gpg gnome-nightly http://sdk.gnome.org/nightly/repo

(2) Install the required runtimes

  flatpak --user install gnome-nightly org.gnome.Platform
  flatpak --user install gnome-nightly org.gnome.Sdk

(3) Build thunderbird from this directory:

  flatpak-builder --force-clean --ccache --require-changes \
      --repo=repo app \
      org.mozilla.Thunderbird.json

(4) Add a remote to your local repo and install it:

  flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify thunderbird-repo /path/to/your/flatpak/repo
  flatpak --user install thunderbird-repo org.mozilla.Thunderbird

(5) Run thunderbird as an flatpak:

  flatpak run org.mozilla.Thunderbird

Note that if you do further changes in the appdir (e.g. to the metadata), you'll need to re-publish it in your local repo and update before running it again:

  flatpak build-export /path/to/your/flatpak/repo /path/to/flatpak/appdir
  flatpak --user update org.mozilla.Thunderbird

Last, you can bundle chromium to a file with the build-bundle subcommand:

  flatpak build-bundle /path/to/your/flatpak/repo thunderbird.bundle org.mozilla.Thunderbird