Flatpak is a software utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. see Wikipedia.
Flatpak builds available in i386, x86-64, ARM and AArch64.
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install flatpak.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:27:27 ago on Fri 01 Nov 2019 11:27:47 PM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
...
Installed:
flatpak-1.4.3-1.fc30.x86_64
p11-kit-server-0.23.16.1-1.fc30.x86_64
xdg-desktop-portal-1.4.2-1.fc30.x86_64
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
flatpak-selinux-1.4.3-1.fc30.x86_64
flatpak-session-helper-1.4.3-1.fc30.x86_64
ostree-libs-2019.4-3.fc30.x86_64
Complete![mythcat@desk ~]$ flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref
Note that the directories
'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/mythcat/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'
are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so applications installed by
Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.
Required runtime for org.gimp.GIMP/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.32) found in remote
flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: Y
org.gimp.GIMP permissions:
ipc network x11 file access [1]
dbus access [2] tags [3]
[1] /tmp, host, xdg-config/GIMP, xdg-config/gtk-3.0
[2] org.freedesktop.FileManager1, org.gtk.vfs, org.gtk.vfs.*
[3] stable
ID Arch Branch Remote Download
ID Arch Branch Remote Download
1. [✓] org.gnome.Platform x86_64 3.32 flathub 360.0 MB / 374.0 MB
2. [✓] org.gnome.Platform.Locale x86_64 3.32 flathub 17.4 kB / 320.0 MB
3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel x86_64 18.08 flathub 1.8 MB / 1.8 MB
4. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs x86_64 18.08 flathub 3.2 MB / 3.3 MB
5. [✓] org.gimp.GIMP x86_64 stable flathub 106.5 MB / 108.9 MB
Installation complete.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ flatpak update
Note that the directories
'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/mythcat/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'
are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.
Looking for updates…
Nothing to do.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable
Note that the directories
'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/mythcat/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'
are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.
GIMP-Error: Skipping '/home/mythcat/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/2.10/pluginrc
wrong GIMP protocol version.
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