flatpaks: How to use them in Xenial/BionicPups & Slacko 700
Posted: Sun 29 Apr 2018, 00:28
Hi flash or whoever,
Please don't hesitate to move this post to whichever Section you think more appropriate.
Edit: Maybe we shouldn't use them at all. See this post: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 43#1007043
With respect to individual applications packaged as flatpaks it is probably more useful to discuss them on Sections or on Threads dealing with the application: for example, the gimp-flatpak in the gimp thread or graphics section. But there should be someplace to discuss the device/mechanism of flatpak, itself; its potential, peculiarities and problems.
A flatpak is a self-contained application which can be used without installing it into the operating system. So, although how they do it may be different, they serve the same purpose as SFSes under Puppies and Squashfses under 'DebianDogs'. That is they consist of entire files systems of the components parts required by an application. Hence, my having posted here.
It took the rest of the Linux World a half-dozen years or so to catch on to the value of using the equivalent of Puppies' SFSes. As far as I can tell, OSes before Slackware 14.2 and Ubuntu Xenial Xerus did not support them. So, it would probably be a PITA to make them functional for Puppies prior to Xenialpup or Slacko 700. But, that's a guess.
The following thread reveals how rockedge obtained a functional gimp-flatpak on the Bionic Pup 18.05. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 082#990082
mikesLr
Please don't hesitate to move this post to whichever Section you think more appropriate.
Edit: Maybe we shouldn't use them at all. See this post: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 43#1007043
With respect to individual applications packaged as flatpaks it is probably more useful to discuss them on Sections or on Threads dealing with the application: for example, the gimp-flatpak in the gimp thread or graphics section. But there should be someplace to discuss the device/mechanism of flatpak, itself; its potential, peculiarities and problems.
A flatpak is a self-contained application which can be used without installing it into the operating system. So, although how they do it may be different, they serve the same purpose as SFSes under Puppies and Squashfses under 'DebianDogs'. That is they consist of entire files systems of the components parts required by an application. Hence, my having posted here.
It took the rest of the Linux World a half-dozen years or so to catch on to the value of using the equivalent of Puppies' SFSes. As far as I can tell, OSes before Slackware 14.2 and Ubuntu Xenial Xerus did not support them. So, it would probably be a PITA to make them functional for Puppies prior to Xenialpup or Slacko 700. But, that's a guess.
The following thread reveals how rockedge obtained a functional gimp-flatpak on the Bionic Pup 18.05. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 082#990082
mikesLr