Why can't I find deb install, to avoid possible Flatpak issues, which maybe causing Wine setup failures.

[rwperrott]

Expected behaviour

Also provide a deb or other direct install, because I've found that Flatpaks can cause unexpected issues, e.g. an annoying one I reported for Foliate, which fortunately is also available as a deb.

Actual behaviour

I have no idea why some operations are taking ages and on a later run appear to have never completed, which maybe a Flatpak issue.

Steps to reproduce

• Install of Flatpack org.phoenicis.playonlinux 5.0-alpha3 using Mint Software Manager.
• Run the program
• Try to do any install which requires a Wine version query/download.

System information

• software version (git revision) of phoenicis and scripts repositories
  Flatpak org.phoenicis.playonlinux 5.0-alpha3, with no custom scripts or repositories.

• used operating system
  Linux Mint 21 MATE 64-bit

• used Java version
  Not sure, probably handled by in Flatpak container, because command line "/app/jre/java ..." is not a path from root.

Give that the product is written in Java, which I am very familiar with, I've forked this project it so that I can see how it works, time permitting, to hopefully run/trace it directly inside an IntelliJ IDEA, then possibly via a "*.desktop" file.

Optionally, more detailed process feedback would be useful in the JavaFX GUI, to see what operations are ongoing, to hopefully discover which specific operations got stuck, and why. If there are is no logging, adding some SLF4J based logging maybe helpful to see in more detail what went wrong.