Questions tagged [flatpak]

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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How to I register locales in a Flatpak application?

I have created a gtk app https://github.com/mijorus/webapp-manager from the Builder template and put a bunch of .po files in the /po folder. Using flatpak-builder I can see them compiling Installing po/sk/LC_MESSAGES/webapp-manager.mo to…
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are flatpak tmp/cache files supposed to be 5 times as large as the objects?

I know flatpak uses a lot of disk space due to the sandbox design and I am okay with that. But I recently found that /var/lib/flatpak/repo/tmp on my Debian system is full of cache directories and much larger than the objects directory. I associate…
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Problem with Gtk Key Controller in Flatpak

I have a problem with the Gtk Key Controller in Flatpak. When I ran my built test application that uses GTK and Libadwaita and Gtk Key Controller for keyboard shortcuts, I found that it doesn't work in Flatpak. When I pressed the Ctrl+S keyboard…
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What Meson command(s) is Gnome Builder running?

Exactly what command(s) does Builder run internally when I press Run? In the Builder (43.1 Flatpak) side pane there is this list of tasks: To build my project I click (yes, with the mouse :/) on the last item, all the undone items are done in…
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Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND when using Google Chrome in Manjaro

I am attending an online course about JavaScript and ancounter an error I cannot solve. The course uses Google Chrome and suggest using it to for the duration of the course. I am on Manjaro and installed Google Chrome using flatpak. It worked fine…
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Cannot launch Steam flatpak from favourite app in Ubuntu 22.04

I successfully installed Steam from flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04, which runs flawlessly using flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam in the terminal. However, I failed to add the app to the favourite app bar successfully. When Steam is running, I can…
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Error writing to file descriptor: No space left on device when installing Flatpak bundle

I have created a flatpak bundle. When I try to install it on another computer, I get this error message Error writing to file descriptor: No space left on device I have previously created bundle for this app in the past and I could install it…
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How do I fix flatpak remote errors?(the TLS connection)

I want to install Flatpak in Ubuntu but when I run this line flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo I encounter this error message, how can I fix this error? error: Can't load uri…
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Flatpak specific commands in CMake

I try to create a Flatpak package for my application, that is called AppName afterwards. Its uses CMake/make for configuration and compilation. When I compile normally my application (without using Flatpak), it uses a configuration file that has to…
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Flatpak Remote Add/Update Signing Key Fails

I'm trying to install some software via flatpak and have attempted to add "Flathub" as a remote source for said software but it seems to fail on the key signing portion. This is on Ubuntu 20.04 under release 1.6.5, through package manager. I have…
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How to open /var/www/html/ in PhpStorm

I installed LAMP on Fedora 36, it's running fine. But the folder /var/www/ is not showing in the 'open folder' menu in PhpStorm /var/ is. I also couldn't find /opt/ when I used XAMPP, that's why I installed LAMPP stack. PhpStorm was installed trough…
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PyCharm installed from Flatpak don't have access to system library on Linux despite should, because I changed his permission

I work with text-to-speech Python library. I have a problem with my IDE (PyCharm) but only, because it is installed by Flatpak, so it doesn't have access to additional library in my system (libespeak). It throws me an error: OSError: libespeak.so.1:…
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Pillow image.getexif() fails in Flatpak

This works perfectly when run as a Python program, but as a Flatpak it always fails on image.getexif(). The Python has: from PIL import Image, ExifTags, ImageOps from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS if os.path.isfile(myfile): image =…
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Ansible added flathub repo isn't recognized

I'm using Ansible to setup my linux machines (Fedora) at home. I'm using the following to add flathub repo as part of role: - name: Enable flatpak repository. tags: repository,flatpak community.general.flatpak_remote: name: flathub …
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flatpak define dependency in manifest

How to add another flatpak packages as a dependency to my app? I want my app to be able to call mpv, so it would be nice to install io.mpv.Mpv along with my app.
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