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Using Flatpak

Using Flatpak - Linux Tutorial

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Using Flatpak

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- [Instructor] Flatpak offers a way of creating, sharing, installing, and managing desktop applications that work across distributions. Flatpaks are sandboxes where a program runs on top of a runtime or a set of desktop libraries and services. At the time I recorded this there were three runtimes available, Freedesktop, GNOME, and KDE. Layering an app sandbox on top of a runtime allows software to run on different distributions without having to be specifically built for that distribution. If different apps require different versions of the same runtime, Flatpak downloads and let's them each use the version they want. And if you're using more than one app that relies on a specific version of a runtime you get a space savings, because Flatpak only needs one copy of each runtime, rather than each app having its own copy of these resources. Flatpaks can be installed either at the system level, where they're available to…

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