# Is Flatpak a viable way to package ParaView with QtWebEngineView?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-flatpak-a-viable-way-to-package-paraview-with-qtwebengineview/17418
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 31, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-flatpak-a-viable-way-to-package-paraview-with-qtwebengineview/17418 "2026-01-31T14:14:30Z")
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### Author: ![sherin.sugathan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/sherin.sugathan/32/15264_2.png) [@sherin.sugathan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sherin.sugathan)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-flatpak-a-viable-way-to-package-paraview-with-qtwebengineview/17418/1 "2026-01-31T14:14:30Z")

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Dear Community! 🙂  
My development environment is Ubuntu (Qt5.15), and my ParaView plugin (C++) make use of a `QtWebEngineView`. If I attempt to package ParaView together with my plugin, I get the following warning during the CMake configuration step:  
`CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:324 (message):`  
` Packaging QtWebEngine on Linux/macOS is not supported yet, generated`  
` package may not be usable`  
`Call Stack (most recent call first):`  
` superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:202 (superbuild_sanity_check)`

As the warning indicates, packaging QtWebEngine on Linux is currently not supported and I get a resulting package with the WebEngineView component not working. As a possible workaround, I am considering using Flatpak to package ParaView along with my plugin and its QtWebEngine dependency.

Before going down that path, I wanted to check whether anyone here has prior experience packaging ParaView (or QtWebEngine-based Qt applications) using Flatpak, or whether someone with more expertise could comment on whether this is a feasible and reasonable direction to pursue.

Any thoughts or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-flatpak-a-viable-way-to-package-paraview-with-qtwebengineview/17418/2 "2026-01-31T14:45:27Z")

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IIRC, the main gap is that the list of Qt plugins to install is unknown. There’s a list of them…somewhere (`paraview.bundle.common.cmake`?) that you can amend to properly package it in a working state.

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### Author: ![sherin.sugathan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/sherin.sugathan/32/15264_2.png) [@sherin.sugathan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sherin.sugathan)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-flatpak-a-viable-way-to-package-paraview-with-qtwebengineview/17418/3 "2026-02-01T13:43:56Z")

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Thank you @ben.boeckel for commenting.