Alexandria

Alexandria is a desktop application for managing a personal library of scientific PDFs.

It extracts publication metadata from PDF files and online services, and presents the papers in a searchable and filterable library. Alexandria also provides citation information, annotations, BibTeX import and export, duplicate detection, and sidecar JSON metadata.

This repository contains the Flatpak packaging for Alexandria, developed by Paul Emsley.

Installation

Alexandria is available from Flathub:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

flatpak install --user flathub io.github.pemsley.Alexandria
flatpak run io.github.pemsley.Alexandria

Building

First, install Flatpak Builder:

flatpak install --user flathub org.flatpak.Builder

Clone this repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/flathub/io.github.pemsley.Alexandria.git
cd io.github.pemsley.Alexandria

Build and install Alexandria locally:

flatpak run org.flatpak.Builder \
  --force-clean \
  --sandbox \
  --user \
  --install \
  --install-deps-from=flathub \
  --ccache \
  --mirror-screenshots-url=https://dl.flathub.org/media/ \
  --repo=repo \
  builddir \
  io.github.pemsley.Alexandria.yaml

Run the locally installed application:

flatpak run io.github.pemsley.Alexandria//master

Updating Python dependencies

Python dependencies are stored in python-deps.json so that Flatpak can build the application without network access during the build.

After changing requirements.txt, regenerate the dependency modules with:

./python-deps.sh

Commit both the updated requirements file and the generated python-deps.yaml.