Flatpak Software management¶

Search Applications¶

In order to search for applications, one can use either Flathubwebsite or use the following commands in Terminal after Setting Up Flatpak.

flatpak search keyWord

Install Applications¶

Once the desired application is listed in the search results, we can use the Application ID to install the application. (Remark: Application ID is to be used and not the name)

flatpak install AppID

Then, few options will be provided for to install the application, i.e for user or system-wide.

Install Application from local flatpakref file¶

Download the flatpakref file and head over to the directory where it is located. Everything remains same as last.

flatpak install fileName

List installed apps¶

To list all the installed Flatpak applications,

flatpak list

Run the application can be run like any other application by just searching for it.¶

To run the application from Terminal,

flatpak run AppID

Update applications¶

To update all the applications installed via Flatpak, use

flatpak update

Uninstall application¶

To uninstall any application,

flatpak uninstall AppID

Clean up unused libraries¶

When an application is uninstalled, not all the dependencies are removed. To clear the unused libraries,

flatpak uninstall --unused

Add other flatpak repo¶

The official repository is Flathub but we can add other repos as well by following command,

flatpak remote-add repoName repoURL

Remove flatpak repo¶

To remove the repo,

flatpak remote-delete repoName