akvadrako/awesome-flatpak

A currated list of resources for the flatpak packaging system.

Awesome Flatpak

A curated list of resources for the Flatpak packaging system.

Contents: Remotes | Tools | Apps | Runtimes | Portal | Docs

Quick Reference

task	example
Install app	flatpak install flatseal
Show permissions	flatpak info --show-permissions org.kde.digikam
Check size	flatpak list --columns=name,size
Delete data	flatpak remove --delete-data

Remotes

Official:

• Flathub
• Flathub-beta
• gnome-nightly
• kdeapps - list of apps
• old liro

Others:

• tinywrkb/flatpaks - hastily packaged apps, mainly adapted from Arch's AUR
• winepak
• firefox
• skype - 2017

App Stores

• Souk - Souk is a flatpak-based App Store, written with GTK4 and Rust.
• bauh - Graphical user interface for installing Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Arch packages (AUR, Pacman), Debian packages, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
• Zorin Store - Zorin OS Store comes pre-loaded with the app catalogs of Flathub, the Snap store, and the Ubuntu & Zorin OS APT repositories, AppImage packages and Windows apps (optionally using Windows App Support, powered by WINE)

Tools

• Flatseal - Permissions manager for Flatpak Apps
• Unsnap - Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
• Sideload - Tool for fast installation .flatpakrefs files, developed Elementary
• old rpm2flatpak
• old game-to-flatpak - 2018
• flatterm - demo application to help you create a terminal that can run both inside and outside of flatpaks

Apps

• Flathub Wikis
• Flathub Search
• Flathub Beta Search

Runtimes

Runtimes provide basic dependencies that can be used by applications. They also provide the environment that applications run in.

Platforms

• org.freedesktop.Platform -
• org.freedesktop.BasePlatform - a smaller runtime
• org.kde.Platform (Docs)
• org.gnome.Platform
• org.fedora.Platform
• org.fedoraproject.BasePlatform - a smaller runtime
• org.winepak.Platform

Base Apps

Base apps contain collections of bundled dependencies which can then be bundled as part of an application.

• org.electronjs.Electron2.BaseApp
• io.atom.electron.BaseApp - example, deprecated

Portal

Flatpak apps interface with the host system mostly via DBUS calls to the a daemon xdg-desktop-portal running on the host system.

• Flathub Wiki Docs
• Portal Daemon Docs

Backends

To implement most portals, the portal relies on backends like these that provides implementations of the org.freedesktop.impl.portal.* interfaces.

• xdg-desktop-portal-gtk - for GNOME desktops
• Pantheon XDG Desktop Portals - for Elementary desktops
• xdg-desktop-portal-kde - for KDE desktops
• xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt - for LXQt desktops
• xdg-desktop-portal-wlr - for wlroots-based compositors like Sway
  • supported iterfaces: Request, Session, Screenshot, Screencast

Docs

• flatpak dev docs
• flatpak wiki
• flatpak FAQ
• Debian Wiki
• ArchWiki
• Fedora
• NixOS
• cheatsheet

News:

• https://flatpak.org/blog-posts/
• https://beta.flathub.org/feeds - Rss feeds
• https://twitter.com/FlathubP - Twitter Account which notify you, when published new or updated flatpak

Contribute

Contributions welcome. Don't feel the need to put too much effort into it. For now, anything flatpak focused will be accepted and I'll work on the formatting if needed.

License

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