[WIP] Kiwix desktop jammy appimage

[veloman-yunkan]

A working appimage was created using the updated scripts/create_kiwix-desktop_appImage.sh in a docker container build using the following Dockerfile (copied and modified from kiwix-build_ci/focal_builder.dockerfile in https://github.com/kiwix/container-images; I know that I forgot to update OS_NAME):

FROM ubuntu:jammy
LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source https://github.com/kiwix/container-images

ENV LANG C.UTF-8
ENV OS_NAME focal
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive

RUN apt update -q \
  && apt install -q -y --no-install-recommends \
# Base build tools
    build-essential automake libtool cmake ccache pkg-config autopoint patch \
    python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel git subversion wget unzip \
    ninja-build openssh-client curl libgl-dev \
# Packaged dependencies
    libbz2-dev libmagic-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev \
    libmicrohttpd-dev aria2 libgtest-dev libgl-dev \
# Devel package to compile python modules
    libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python3-dev \
# Qt packages
    libqt5gui5 qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev libqt5svg5-dev qt5-image-formats-plugins \
# To create the appimage of kiwix-desktop
    libfuse2 fuse patchelf \
# Flatpak tools
    elfutils flatpak flatpak-builder \
# Cross win32 compiler
    g++-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-mingw-w64-base mingw-w64-tools \
# Cross compile i586
    libc6-dev-i386 lib32stdc++6 gcc-multilib g++-multilib \
# Other tools (to remove)
#    vim less grep \
  && apt-get clean -y \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /usr/share/doc/* /var/cache/debconf/* \
  && pip3 install meson pytest gcovr requests distro

# Create user
RUN groupadd --gid 121 runner
RUN useradd --uid 1001 --gid 121 --create-home runner
USER runner
ENV PATH /home/runner/.local/bin:$PATH

[veloman-yunkan]

So we need to introduce a jammy builder. The big question is which of our CI/CD jobs should we switch to that new build platform? Should we only create the kiwix-desktop appimage under jammy or some other builds should be upgraded as well?

[kelson42]

@veloman-yunkan Great but I don't know how/what to answer to you. We probably need to move the whole linux compilation ci/cd on jammy.

[veloman-yunkan]

@veloman-yunkan Great but I don't know how/what to answer to you. We probably need to move the whole linux compilation ci/cd on jammy.

@kelson42 Then I believe that such a transition shouldn't be done as part of this PR. Rather a separate ticket must be opened and the pros and cons of the proposed upgrade should be discussed there in a broader scope.

[kelson42]

@veloman-yunkan So what would be the solution for 2.4.0?