Questions tagged [flatpak]
Flatpak is a packaging mechanism for distributing a sandboxed desktop application to Linux systems.
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How can i move Flatpak installed apps to another disk?
I'm using Debian 12 Bookworm. I recently started receiving a message from the system saying my root partition (30GB) was almost out of space. Analyzing it, I realized the /var/lib/flatpak/app occupied ...
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bwrap: execvp com.github.tchx84.Flatseal: No such file or directory flatpak
Some background of what happened.
I was playing with Flatseal to try few themes on my flatpak appliacations, and after some workarounds here and there, I accidently removed some file section in the ...
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Put zenity to flatpak /usr/bin folder
I try to create a flatpak application for Instant meshes in particular the manifest is the following:
id: org.flatpak.InstantMeshes
runtime: org.gnome.Platform
runtime-version: "44"
sdk: org....
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How can I manage dependencies with FlatPak?
I have some trouble understanding how dependencies are managed within FlatPak. Recently I wanted to update all FlatPaks using flatpak update and got a message that some software version is not ...
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Is it possible to build a Flatpak package using flatpak-builder without FUSE?
I'm trying to build a Flatpak package with flatpak-builder in an environment where I don't have access to FUSE. This leads to the following problem:
Initializing build dir
Committing stage init to ...
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Is it possible to give an existing Flatpak application permission to run another Flatpak?
You can give a Flatpak permissions to access files/folders outside of its sandbox using the techniques described in this Ubuntu Stack Exchange QA.
But is it possible to give an existing Flatpak ...
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How can you build a Flatpak package in a Bitbucket CI/CD pipeline?
I'm trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline that builds Flatpak packages in Bitbucket CI, but I'm struggling with getting Flatpak working in the container. Initially I tried using the freedesktopsdk/flatpak:...
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Why does Flatpak install applications in /var instead of /usr?
I've noticed that Flatpak, a popular package manager for Linux, installs applications in the /var directory instead of the traditional /usr directory.
While /usr has been the conventional location for ...
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Issue installing browser with old version of flatpack
I'm using xubuntu 20.04 and i am downlaoding the broswer like chrome in flathub it always say you need later version of flatpak (1.8.2)
Help me to fix that problem
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How do I programmatically check if a Flatpak package is installed in a shell script?
I'm writing a script where I want to detect whether a given Flatpak package is installed, and take a different code path depending on the answer. How can I accomplish this? Traditional measures like ...
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opening an image in /tmp with Pinta
I have Pinta 2.1.1 running in Flatpak (v1.14.5). When I run Pinta from the command line passing an image located in /tmp as an argument, it complains about the file not existing:
$ /var/lib/flatpak/...
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Flatpak install freezes when downloading resource. Can I find source URL to download file manually from browser?
I am trying to update the Gnome Web (org.gnome.Epiphany) flatpak, on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (on WSL2). One specific resource, "org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264" always freezes when downloading. ...
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What should I do, if I want the newest stable versions of my packages, preferably from official sources?
I've been using Linux for a while now, but I am a bit confused on what the best way to install packages would be. Since a lot of packages in my distro repositories (I use Pop!_OS) are outdated, should ...
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Flatpak-installed Spotify client doesn't evoke the web browser
I'm on Fedora 39 on bspwm (very minimal installation, maybe I'm missing some library necessary for this) and installed Spotify client from flathub using flatpak install flathub com.spotify.Client and ...
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flatpak creation issue for old version of Wine (6.13)
I am attempting to create a flatpak for an old development version of Wine, 6.13, but have been running into problems. The show-stopper is a bwrap: execvp wine: No such file or directory error when ...
