Hi esteban excellent news. Did you announce it on the pharo news web site?
S > On 2 Jun 2026, at 12:15, Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a Flatpak for the Pharo VM. > After some work, I think I finally have a version that’s ready to be tested, > so please give it a try! > > You can find it here: https://forge.smallworks.eu/pharo/pharo-vm-flatpak > Just follow the installation instructions in the repo. > > A few notes: > > This is still a regular Pharo VM, but the bundled dependencies are the ones > used by Pharo 14. This matters especially for Iceberg, since it uses libgit2 > 1.9.4. > > For FFI, I had to update UnifiedFFI in Pharo 14 so it can find libraries in > the right places. Since Flatpak runs in a sandbox, host libraries, when > needed, are exposed under /run/host/.... The Pharo run script already adapts > LD_LIBRARY_PATH for this, but uFFI does not use it. > > This is a full VM with quite a few dependencies, including the GNOME runtime, > because it is also part of another project that needs them. You can snoop > around the repo, or wait for my ESUG talk to hear more about that. ;) > > I tested it on my own Arch system and on Ubuntu 24. That said, it may still > need some tweaks on other systems, or even on different machines running > those same systems, so please let me know how it goes. :) > > Cheers ! > Esteban >
