pkg2appimage VS flathub

Compare pkg2appimage vs flathub and see what are their differences.

pkg2appimage

Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage (by AppImageCommunity)

flathub

Issue tracker and new submissions (by flathub)
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pkg2appimage flathub
14 113
665 1,042
1.7% 3.1%
6.9 6.8
2 months ago 5 days ago
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pkg2appimage

Posts with mentions or reviews of pkg2appimage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

flathub

Posts with mentions or reviews of flathub. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-16.
  • Flathub – The Linux App Store
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
    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...

  • Bforartists Flatpak, coming soon to Flathub
    2 projects | /r/Bforartists | 29 Jun 2023
    That means Linux users can now install Bforartists on any Linux distro easily, regardless of glibc version! https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/4295
  • The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
    2 projects | /r/linux | 22 May 2023
    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
  • Who is behind flathub and rpmfusion really?
    2 projects | /r/Fedora | 21 May 2023
    It all should be written in pages for contributors, read the docs for fusion, and the docs for flathub.
  • Flathub just hit 1 billion total downloads
    2 projects | /r/linux | 6 May 2023
    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.
  • How do I easily create a Flatpak from 2 sources?
    6 projects | /r/flatpak | 12 Mar 2023
    Also, while looking into that, I found that this appears to be the most recent effort and this is an earlier effort so it'd probably be better to start from one of those.
  • Flathub's index now shows you which apps are verified
    3 projects | /r/linux | 8 Mar 2023
    Flatpaks builds are made to be reproducible. Everything is done openly and you can check how the apps like for example Spotify where made.
  • Flathub in 2023
    2 projects | /r/linux | 7 Mar 2023
    Two days. You can see the whole process in the pull request if you want to.
  • Publishing First Flatpak to Flathub Help
    2 projects | /r/flatpak | 6 Mar 2023
    My confusion comes with actually releasing it to flathub. https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission. It looks like I am supposed to fork their repo and create a PR with just the app metadata. So my question is, where does the output build data get hosted that I generated by following the sample tutorial? Do I put that on git somewhere? How does flathub know where it is?
  • Is Flathub safe?
    4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 15 Feb 2023
    At the very least, they should confirm if the app meets the requirements, as mentioned in the submission process.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pkg2appimage and flathub you can also consider the following projects:

ZeroTier-GUI - A Linux front-end for ZeroTier

AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

deb2appimage - Build AppImages from deb packages on any distro with simple json configuration

openbsd-wip - OpenBSD work in progress ports

steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications

easyeffects - Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications

us.zoom.Zoom

flathub - Pull requests for new applications to be added