Setup Flutter Desktop on openSUSE
The prerequisites
I assume you’ve already installed Flutter SDK not from snapd. If you don’t have already, follow official doc on flutter.dev
Additional requirements for openSUSE
For Flutter desktop development, you need the following in addition to the Flutter SDK:
- Clang
- CMake
- GTK development headers
- Ninja
- pkg-config
Installing additional requirements
1sudo zypper in clang gcc cmake ninja pkg-config gtk3-devel
NOTE THAT the package names shown in official doc (ninja-build & libgtk-3-dev) are (ninja and gtk3-devel) on openSUSE.
Set up
At the command line, perform the following commands to make sure that you have the latest desktop support and it’s enabled. If you see ”flutter: command not found”, then make sure Flutter SDK is in your path.
1flutter config --enable-linux-desktop
To ensure that desktop is enabled, list the devices available.
1flutter devices
You should see something like the following
11 connected device:23Linux (desktop) • linux • linux-x64 • openSUSE Tumbleweed
Add desktop support to an existing Flutter app
To add desktop support to an existing Flutter project, run the following command in a terminal from the root project directory:
1flutter create --org com.example --platforms=linux .
This adds the necessary desktop files and directories to your existing Flutter project.
Now you can build linux app on openSUSE
1flutter build linux --release
For releasing linux app, follow official doc on flutter.dev
