SuperCollider now offers nightly flatpak builds via https://supercollider.github.io/downloads.
We also plan on publishing flatpaks for every official SuperCollider release from now on.
Beneath building SC oneself or relying on the package manager of the distribution, this now offers a third way of running SC on linux machines.
For more information, please read
- the new flatpak section at supercollider/README_LINUX.md at develop · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub and
- Add Flatpak build by capital-G · Pull Request #7569 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub for development discussion around flatpak
It would be great to get some feedback from Linux users if everything is working as expected.
Once flatpak works reliable, we will also try to get it distributed via https://flathub.org.
Have in mind that the nightly build is based on the development version, so any server plugins will probably not work currently due to changes in the plugin API.
Also: installing SC via flatpak will add an additional installation of SuperCollider to your system if one is already present - keep this in mind as it gets confusing easily. prko recently fixed the uninstall cmake target via Update README_LINUX.md (adds uninstall target) by prko · Pull Request #7640 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub which may be relevant if you want to replace your local build with the flatpak one permanently.