Flatpak
Sign in to savethumb|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
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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.
==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.