eos-kolibri

Collection of Endless OS system helpers and tools for Kolibri.

Description

This package contains eos-kolibri-system-helper (configuration for Kolibri's backend to run as a system service) as well as eos-kolibri-tools.

eos-kolibri-system-helper

Provides dbus and systemd configuration to integrate the Kolibri flatpak with Endless OS. It creates a kolibri system user, and dbus system service configuration for org.learningequality.Kolibri.Daemon. This dbus service uses the org.learningequality.Kolibri flatpak.

The KOLIBRI_USE_SYSTEM_INSTANCE environment variable is set globally so the Kolibri front-end knows to communicate with the system service rather than a per-session one. However, for Endless Key flatpak, it should check ENDLESS_KEY_USE_SYSTEM_INSTANCE environment and make front-end communicate with the system service if it is set, instead of KOLIBRI_USE_SYSTEM_INSTANCE.

The dbus system service is executed from the dbus-org.learningequality.Kolibri.Daemon.service (or dbus-org.endlessos.Key.Daemon.service) systemd unit. Normally the way to set environment variables for systemd services is to add a drop-in configuration. However, since the daemon is ultimately executed with flatpak run, flatpak manages the execution environment. In that case, environment variables for the daemon should be set with a flatpak override. For example:

flatpak override --env=KOLIBRI_DEBUG=1 org.learningequality.Kolibri

eos-kolibri-tools

Provides tools to manage the system-wide Kolibri installation:

• eos-kolibri-manage: Run a Kolibri management command inside Endless OS's default Kolibri instance.
• eos-kolibri-migrate: Copy Kolibri data from a desktop user's Kolibri instance to the system Kolibri instance.
• eos-kolibri-listcontent: List content installed in Kolibri. This is useful to generate configuration for eos-image-builder.

Build Configuration

The meson option kolibri_flatpak_id is set as org.learningequality.Kolibri for the org.learningequality.Kolibri flatpak and the dbus system service org.learningequality.Kolibri.Daemon by default. It can be set as another flatpak ID and will change the dbus system service accordingly.