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Packaging app for Linux

Flet CLI provides flet build linux command that allows packaging Flet app into a Linux application.

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The command can be run on Linux only.

Prerequisites​

GStreamer for Audio​

GStreamer libraries must be installed if your Flet app uses Audio control.

To install minimal set of GStreamer libs on Ubuntu/Debian run the following commands:

apt install libgtk-3-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

To install full set of GStreamer libs:

apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-doc gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-qt5 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio

See this guide for installing on other Linux distributives.

To build your Flet app that uses Audio control add --include-packages flet_audio to flet build command, for example:

flet build apk --include-packages flet_audio

MPV for Video​

libmpv libraries must be installed if your Flet app uses Video control. On Ubuntu/Debian you can install it with:

sudo apt install libmpv-dev mpv

To build your Flet app that uses Video control add --include-packages flet_video to flet build command, for example:

flet build apk --include-packages flet_video

flet build linux​

Creates a Linux application from your Flet app.