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Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux

Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux.

It allows the same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including different versions. And it has been designed from the ground up with security in mind, so that apps are isolated from each other and from the host system.

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Can I run an independent instance of a Flatpak app?

Can I run an independent, isolated instance of an arbitrary Flatpak app? In other words, the second instance won't share local resources (say, a cache) with the first instance.
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Flatpak Meson Not Finding Vala Libraries From Gnome Builder

From Linux, I'm using Meson (0.44.0) within Gnome Builder (3.26.4) for a console program that will use Gee and GXml. My intent is to write this in Genie. When I use Meson within Gnome Builder it fails but the same succeeds when invoked from the…
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What is the right way to give Flatpak access to system binaries?

I'm using the flatpak version of Atom. A lot of my extentions require paths to executable binaries such as the php binary for code completion. Now Flatpak blacklists the /usr directory, do when I pass the /usr/bin/php directory it doesn't find the…
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flatpak add additional dependencies after install (QGIS)

I'm encountering a problem with the org.qgis.qgis package. It has a self-contained python install which it uses to run its plugins and console. This page tells me to install python modules using the following command: flatpak run --command=pip3…
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WPE WebKit Cog isn’t working: “Could not open EGL display”

I’m trying to run WPE WebKit on Ubuntu using VMware and host macOS, but I’m receiving the following error message: ➜ flatpak run org.wpe.Cog -P fdo http://www.example.com (cog:2): GLib-CRITICAL **: 09:34:38.938: g_source_destroy: assertion 'source…
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What's a flatpak runtime?

What exactly is a flatpak runtime? Is it a virtual machine like JVM (Java) and CPython? Or is it more like something like virtualenv? I already read the flatpak documentation but it was not clear to me.
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VSCode can't find files in Linux system

I have installed Visual Studio Code - OSS via flatpak. I changed "terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/usr/bin/zsh" shell exist and working $ which zsh > /usr/bin/zsh $ ls -l $(which zsh) > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 865456 Feb 4 21:06 /usr/bin/zsh $…
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Flatpak bundle libmysqlclient

I'm trying to build a Vala program with flatpak. I need to connect to a mysql-server and thats why i need to bundle libmysqlclient with my flatpak. Thats why I added mysql_config to my meson.build file. project('zeiterfassunggtk', ['c', 'vala'], …
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Meson find_program not finding program

I'm building a Vala program with gnome-builder and flatpak. I wan't to connect to a mySQL Database. Thats why I need to run mysql_config to get the right compiler flags. So I added mysql_config = find_program('mysql_config')to my meson.build…
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flatpak-builder with local sources and dependancies

How I can build local sources and dependancies with flatpak-builder? I can build local sources flatpak build ../dictionary ./configure --prefix=/app I can extract and build application with dependancies with a .json flatpak-builder --repo=repo…
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Pass file descriptor via a dbus function call from Python (aka call flatpak's HostCommand)

I want to call Flatpak's new Development DBus service to spawn a process on the host, rather than in the sandbox. To call the DBus service, I've come up with the following piece of code: #!/usr/bin/env python import logging import os import…
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How to set a Flatpak application to autostart?

I have created an application and packaged/released it as a Flatpak (among others). The app has a setting the user can enable so the app will start automatically when the user signs into their system. This setting works fine as a regular Linux…
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How can I install Eclipse on Fedora 37?

I have been trying to install Eclipse on Fedora 37. I tried the following instruction: "flatpak install org.eclipse.Java" I expected to see download in progress, but instead I keep getting the following result: "error: No remote refs found for…
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How to open browser preview from intellij in flatpak google chrome

When I try to open browser preview in Google Chrome, I encounter this error: Unfortunately, I have installed Google Chrome via flatpak, and there is no working installation path that I can just provide to IntelliJ.
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Why NetBeans can't find Mercurial path?

I have a Linux Mint VM, where I installed formerly NetBeans 12.x (up to 12.6) and now I've updated it to 13.0, all with flatpak, and even starting from a clean setup. With all those setups, NetBeans can't find Mercurial, even if I really have it in…
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