# Interest to create Flatpak for 3D Slicer, have issue with GUISupportQtOpenGL not found

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/interest-to-create-flatpak-for-3d-slicer-have-issue-with-guisupportqtopengl-not-found/16532
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**Created:** [March 14, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/interest-to-create-flatpak-for-3d-slicer-have-issue-with-guisupportqtopengl-not-found/16532 "2021-03-14T14:06:38Z")
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### Author: ![RafaelPalomar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/rafaelpalomar/32/1436_2.png) [@RafaelPalomar](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/RafaelPalomar)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/interest-to-create-flatpak-for-3d-slicer-have-issue-with-guisupportqtopengl-not-found/16532/30 "2023-02-16T09:37:12Z")

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UPDATE: Based on the discussion held on [2023.02.07 Weekly Meeting](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2023-02-07-weekly-meeting/27680) with the Slicer core devs, it seems reasonable to try approaching the Slicer flatpak **under a superbuild** approach rather than a non-superbuild as I initially proposed. Reasons: (1) some of the SystoleOS patches may take time to land on the Slicer code base, some might not even make it; (2) the distributed Slicer should be the same (or very similar) regardless of whether this is a flatpak or a redistributable linux binary, as of today this a superbuild-based.

@luarpy and @RafaelPalomar have started putting together a Flatpak manifest generator for Slicer (this is needed to set the right versions for the dependencies in the manifest) in here: [GitHub - RafaelPalomar/Slicer-Flatpak: Flatpak for 3D Slicer](https://github.com/RafaelPalomar/Slicer-Flatpak). The final manifest will go on its own repository (so far, [GitHub - RafaelPalomar/org.slicer.Slicer: Flatpak repository for Slicer](https://github.com/RafaelPalomar/org.slicer.Slicer)). It is still a non-usable work-in-progress, where we try to reproduce the suggestions above by @jcfr.

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