Flatpak

Together with my then-colleague Kalev Lember, I recently added support for pre-installing Flatpak applications. It sounds fancy, but it is conceptually very simple: Flatpak reads configuration files from several directories to determine which applications should be pre-installed. It then installs any missing applications and removes any that are no longer supposed to be pre-installed (with some small caveats).

At the end of last month, I introduced Solseek, a new TUI wrapper for Solus’s eopkg package manager, which offers a fast and streamlined way to browse, install, and update software on Solus Linux. Since then, it has been moving quickly, with rapid development introducing new features and improvements.

The recently released Solseek 0.3.2 brings a key expansion by adding full Flatpak handling alongside several performance and quality-of-life improvements.

Many distributions provide support out of the proverbial box for Flatpak packages, but Fedora is unusual in that it also provides, and defaults, to its own repository of Fedora-built Flatpaks. This has been a source of confusion for Fedora users, who expect to get the Flatpak built by the original developers and hosted on Flathub. It has also been a source of conflict with upstream projects, because users complain of bugs in Flatpak packages they are not responsible for. The situation has also frustrated some Fedora developers, who would prefer to offer put Flathub's offerings first. A new complaint that Fedora has apparently used manifests from Flathub to build the packages for Fedora—without giving credit to the original authors—has spurred discussions about Fedora's Flatpaks once again. While no concrete changes are on the table, yet, there may be some movement toward addressing persistent complaints.

Any developer or project can provide a repository with their software in Flatpak format; however, Flathub is the de facto hosting service for Flatpaks these days. Projects that publish Flatpaks expect users to get them from Flathub, and users looking for software would generally expect to get the Flathub version of a Flatpak.

After a difficult period, the Flatpak project regains stability and focus under new maintainers with the 1.17 pre-release, the first update in six months.

Red Hat’s Sebastian Wick has shared some interesting insights into Flatpak’s development following the 1.17 pre-release, an unstable version (the current stable is 1.16.1), marking the first update in six months and a strong return for this popular Linux sandboxing framework.

Flatpak 1.17 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux app sandboxing/distribution tech. Flatpak 1.17 brings a number of exciting new features.

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/6985

https://flathub.org/statistics

You can now download or update your Speed Dreams Flatpak to the latest version (2.4.2), and enjoy our SimRacing Open Source Game in this kind of package:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.speed_dreams.SpeedDreams

Thanks once again to @son_link for his invaluable work.

Compatible with PeerTube. Unfortunately there is no login support but you can search, watch and subscribe to videos in the same feed with youtube and whatever else.

OC by: @paequ2@lemmy.today

Here are all the GNOME Core Apps I could find on Flathub.

• Audio Player flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Decibels
• Calculator flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Calculator
• Calendar flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Calendar
• Camera flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Snapshot
• Characters flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Characters
• Clocks flatpak install flathub org.gnome.clocks
• Connections flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Connections
• Contacts flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Contacts
• Disk Usage Analyzer flatpak install flathub org.gnome.baobab
• Document Scanner flatpak install flathub org.gnome.SimpleScan
• Document Viewer flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Evince
• Extensions flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Extensions
• Fonts flatpak install flathub org.gnome.font-viewer
• Image Viewer flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Loupe
• Logs flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Logs
• Maps flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Maps
• Music flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Music
• Text Editor flatpak install flathub org.gnome.TextEditor
• Videos flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Totem
• Weather flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Weather
• Web flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Epiphany

Warning: the audio is bad and will occasionally get very loud

Currently, Actual Budget is not available via Flathub. They do offer a .flatpak file on the releases page, but it would be nicer if they were on Flathub.

Vote to get Actual Budget on Flathub! 🗳