Flatpak
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thumb|Preferred badge for promoting apps on Flathub since 2023, English version Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in (partial) isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was known as xdg-app until 2016.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Flatpak
- Software.screenshot
- Flatpak install screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- Example of installing Krita from Flathub with Flatpak CLI
- Software.title
- Flatpak
- Software.logo
- 128px|
- Software.author
- Alexander Larsson
- Software.developer
- Flatpak Team
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux
- Software.license
- LGPL-2.1-or-later
via Wikipedia infobox
Source code
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. Flatpak is available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and can be installed from there. See for quick setup instructions for many distributions. Community discussion happens in flatpak:matrix.org, on the mailing list, and on the Flathub Discourse. Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help: Fix one of the issues and submit a PR Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at and developed over in flatpak-docs Find a bug and submit a detailed report including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce Add your favorite application to Flathub by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and submitting it Improve the Flatpak support in your favorite Linux distribution
Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,974 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- flatpak.org
- Image
- Flatpak install screenshot.png
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- software version identifier
- 1.16.6
- social media followers
- 3392
- inception
- 2007-08-00
- source code repository URL
- github.com/flatpak/flatpak
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#flatpak
- Commons category
- Flatpak
- publication date
- 2015-03-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/flatpak
- user manual URL
- docs.flatpak.org/en/latest
Sources (9)
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6 sectionsContents
- Features
- Flathub
- Support
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Preferred badge for promoting apps on Flathub since 2023, English version Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in (partial) isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was known as xdg-app until 2016.
==Features== Applications using Flatpak need permissions to access resources such as Bluetooth, sound (with PipeWire), network, and files. These permissions are configured by the maintainer of the Flatpak and can be added or removed by users on their system.