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diff --git a/desktop/flatpak/README b/desktop/flatpak/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..38ed8cb413 --- /dev/null +++ b/desktop/flatpak/README @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Flatpak + +Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux + +Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in +multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging +formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. 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. + +Some of the examples from http://flatpak.org/#users are relying on polkit +helpers, that expect a user in the 'wheel' group to have privileges for, but +default polkit admin rule for slackware is just the root user. +So, if you run a command like: +``` +flatpak remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo +flatpak remote-add --from gnome-apps https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-apps.flatpakrepo +``` +as a limited user, you will get a polkit prompt for root's password. This is +because the default location for establishing these repos is in +`/var/lib/flatpak` and requires admin privileges. + +You can optionally add the flag `--user` to flatpak commands, and it will +instead manage the repos in `~/.local/share/flatpak`. + +There are examples of flatpak runtimes and applications on their wiki: +https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Examples + +The to have desktop launchers search by desktops like KDE and XFCE, it will +require a logout, as /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh will need to be sourced. |