rpm

Build your Flutter app as an RPM package for installation on Red Hat-based Linux distributions such as Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and OpenSUSE. RPM is the standard package management format used by these distributions.

Requirements

• Linux system (Fedora/RHEL-based distribution recommended)
• patchelf — for modifying ELF binaries
• rpmbuild — RPM package builder

Install requirements:

• Debian/Ubuntu: apt install rpm patchelf
• Fedora: dnf install gcc rpm-build rpm-devel rpmlint make python bash coreutils diffutils patch rpmdevtools patchelf
• Arch: yay -S rpmdevtools patchelf or pamac install rpmdevtools patchelf

Usage

Add make_config.yaml to your project linux/packaging/rpm directory.

icon: assets/logo.png
summary: A really cool application
group: Application/Emulator
vendor: Kingkor Roy Tirtho
packager: Kingkor Roy Tirtho
packager_email: krtirtho@gmail.com
license: GPLv3
url: https://github.com/fastforgedev/fastforge

display_name: Hello World

keywords:
  - Hello
  - World
  - Test
  - Application

generic_name: Cool Application

categories:
  - Cool
  - Awesome

startup_notify: true

# RPM spec macros — inject global RPM directives at the top of the .spec file
#
# Useful for solving cross-distro ABI conflicts, excluding automatic requires,
# or setting build-id options. Each entry is placed verbatim at the top of the
# generated .spec file, before the preamble.
#
# spec_macros:
#   - "%global __requires_exclude .*libcurl.*CURL_OPENSSL.*"
#   - "%define _build_id_links none"

# You can also specify [metainfo](https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html) file
# which contains metadata of the app.
# metainfo: linux/packaging/myappid.appdata.xml

Run:

fastforge package --platform linux --targets rpm

Installation Structure

After installation, the application files are placed under /opt/{package_name}/, following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) for third-party add-on software packages:

Path	Description
/opt/{package_name}/	Application binaries and runtime files
/usr/bin/{package_name}	Symlink to the main binary (added to $PATH)
/usr/share/applications/{package_name}.desktop	Desktop entry for the application menu
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/{package_name}.png	Application icon
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/{package_name}.png	Application icon (high resolution)
/usr/share/metainfo/{package_name}.metainfo.xml	AppStream metadata (if configured)

This follows the same convention used by other major third-party Linux applications such as Google Chrome, VS Code, Discord, and Zoom.

Related Links

• Build and release a Linux app
• RPM Packaging Guide
• patchelf