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io
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Can't find the downloaded files
Zero idea since I don't use it, but there's an issue open mentioning exactly that: https://github.com/flathub/io.github.mimbrero.WhatsAppDesktop/issues/7
- AM2RLauncher Flatpak - GNOME Platform 42 is end of life
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Curious about legitimacy of flatpak
The flatpak manifest builds the flatpak by downloading and extracting a zipped built binary from github. Even if you reviewed all of the source code, you can't be sure that is what ends up in the flatpak.
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Temporary solution for the current Flatpak issues (Using the AppImage with the Flatpak profile under Firejail).
The Flathub build was downgraded to 107.0.1 : https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/pull/29
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Can you distribute a Flutter Linux app as a Flatpak?
Of course! My flutter app is already distributed on flathub. It's a little bit tricky but you can. Take a look to my app manifest, is pretty simple, if you have some question I'm here!
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Failed to login Github Desktop
According to github this may be an upstream issue. I think you'll just have to stick with the CLI.
- Start building my first Flatpaks (Python)
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Did someone ever tried "Login Manager Settings" of FlatHub ? Can it break your OS ?
The manifest looks pretty benign. Its only grabbing two packages. First blueprint-compiler from gnome.org, so thats probably trustworthy. The other is GdmSettings itself, coming from he repository. It doesn't ask for network permissions, so it can't send any data on you out... except that with --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak it can change the sandbox as it wants if I understand correctly.
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Overly-sensitive right on d-pad demonstration
sdl2-jstest https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.sdl_jstest.sdl2_jstest
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What flatpaks are "official" (i.e., directly from the application's developer)?
The Nheko flatpak is official. Just compare the source to the nightlies we build and upload to our nightly repo.
flathub
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XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
> Nobody ever even audits the binary contents of flatpaks on flathub (were they actually built from the source? the author attests so!).
IME/IIRC There aren't (or shouldn't be) any binary contents on Flathub that are submitted by the author, at least for projects with source available? You're supposed to submit a short, plain-text recipe instead, which then gets automatically built from source outside the control of the author.
> The Flathub service then uses the manifest from your repository to continuously build and distribute your application on every commit.
https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/#ho...
Usually the recipes should just list the appropriate URLs to get the source code, or, for proprietary applications, the official .DEBs. Kinda like AUR, but JSON/YAML. Easy to audit if you want:
https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories
- FOSS software is probably less likely to abuse this, but it just depends how ruthless the publisher is, a lot of people desire to be successful and it's human nature to look for advantages to put yourself above others in competitive environments.
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Flathub – The Linux App Store
I also don't believe third parties maintainers packaging software on flathub is a big issue but I'm also not familiar with how other distro repos trust their maintainers. Hopefully more developers maintain their flatpak themselves (or someone they trust) and get their apps verified. If most apps are verified, warning users of unverified apps might be a good idea.
There's ongoing discussion about splitting open source and proprietary apps in to seperate repos [1]. Additionally having seperate repos for verified and unverified apps might make it more obvious where an app comes from in the cli.
But I don't know how seamlessly an app could transition between being in the third party repo and being in the official repo. Having the user quietly stop receiving updates seems like a bad idea, but automatically migrating might not be desirable either.
I also think flatpaks cli interface needs some work. It is functional but far from distro package managers.
Being verified is especially important for critical apps. Recently someone added malicious versions of apps to the snap store [3]. This lead to people getting their cryptocurrency stolen.
[1] https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/691
[2] https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements
[3] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/temporary-suspension-of-automat...
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Bforartists Flatpak, coming soon to Flathub
That means Linux users can now install Bforartists on any Linux distro easily, regardless of glibc version! https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4295
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Turtle 0.3 released (formerly TurtleGit)
Still having some problems with the flathub build, see https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4082 for the current status.
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TurtleGit released, a git frontend for GNOME and Nautilus
Here is the flathub draft pull request: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4082
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The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
i assume you dont know how flathub works , theirs little or no QC , done flathub is just get told theirs an update for the package , if yo go look at the github repo pes https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4164 for example , only updates the link to the girt repo , theirs 0 code checked
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Who is behind flathub and rpmfusion really?
It all should be written in pages for contributors, read the docs for fusion, and the docs for flathub.
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Flathub just hit 1 billion total downloads
These are criticisms of the flatpak ecosystem as it stands today. Currently, the Firefox ESR package on flathub seems to be caught in limbo or maybe dead. Mozilla publishes both a snap and a flatpak of Firefox latest, but only a snap of the ESR version. This raises the question of why. Have Mozilla chosen to invest more in snaps than in flatpaks? If so, what's their reasoning? (More users on snaps, making it similar to why they put more investment into Windows than Linux? Something else?) If they haven't invested more into snaps than flatpaks, is this a sign that it's harder to maintain flatpaks (or at least on flathub) than snaps? If that's true, I would hope that flatpak/flathub would be soliciting feedback from Mozilla about it.
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VirtualBox as Flatpak
Because that may be very hard to sandbox: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/issues/3366
What are some alternatives?
gfn-electron - Linux Desktop client for Nvidia's GeForce NOW game streaming service
ZeroTier-GUI - A Linux front-end for ZeroTier
com.brave.Browser
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
gdm-settings - A settings app for GNOME's Login Manager, GDM
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
org.keepassxc.KeePassXC
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
org.videolan.VLC
openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports
com.obsproject.Studio - This repository is no longer used to build OBS. Issues should be reported at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications