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

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**Category:** Support\
**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 23, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/interest-to-create-flatpak-for-3d-slicer-have-issue-with-guisupportqtopengl-not-found/16532/35 "2023-02-23T19:58:18Z")

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From worse to better:

1. AppImages: “fail in everything they set out to do” → Don’t use them.

- Linux apps running everywhere → They don’t
- Easy to install apps as in Windows or Mac → They are not.
- Provide applications without the need to ‘get into a distribution’ or ‘build for a different distributions’ → Practically, you need to learn every distro and build one.

1. Snaps → Practically confined to Canonical ecosystems.

- Still very limited to Ubuntu ecosystem (won’t deliver confinement in most Linux distributions).

- Very dependent of Canonical. There is a pricing model for serious delivery of apps and there is no open-source delivery option (open format, but not open delivery).

1. Flatpak → The only option ready for primetime

- Reasonable isolation model. The client is easy to integrate in any Linux distribution

- Translates licensing and dependencies freedom and responsibility to the packagers

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