Flatpak: command not found

Question

I have built a flatpak package out of my application. However, flatpak-builder in the end complains:

Error: Command 'executable' not found

Where executable is the name of my program, which I have specified in my manifest as "command": "executable". When I check in the build folder, my executable is in build-folder/files/executable. (files is auto-generated and seems to be the base installation directory, all the libraries get put in the lib folder below there). When I change the command to e.g. /executable, the package gets created. When test-running the application, I have to specify the full path to the executable for it to run:

flatpak-builder --run bin org.myorg.executable.json build-folder/files/executable

(when I just specify executable here instead of build-folder/files/executable, it tells me bwrap: execvp executable: No such file or directory).

However, when I install the flatpak via a local repo , flatpak run org.myorg.executable shows

bwrap: execvp /executable: No such file or directory

(where executable is the name of my executable). Of course, I suppose it should just be executable instead of /executable, but flatpak-builder won't create a package with that value!

So, what am I doing wrong here, how can I create a working package with flatpak-builder?

Answer 1

My mistake - my executable should have gone into the bin folder, now it works...