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<refentry id="flatpak-override">
<refentryinfo>
<title>flatpak override</title>
<productname>flatpak</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Alexander</firstname>
<surname>Larsson</surname>
<email>alexl@redhat.com</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>flatpak override</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>flatpak-override</refname>
<refpurpose>Override application requirements</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>flatpak override</command>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTION</arg>
<arg choice="opt">APP</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
Overrides the application specified runtime requirements. This can be used
to grant a sandboxed application more or less resources than it requested.
</para>
<para>
By default the application gets access to the resources it
requested when it is started. But the user can override it
on a particular instance by specifying extra arguments to
<command>flatpak run</command>, or every time by using
<command>flatpak override</command>.
</para>
<para>
If the application ID <arg choice="plain">APP</arg> is not specified
then the overrides affect all applications,
but the per-application overrides can override the global overrides.
</para>
<para>
Unless overridden with the <option>--user</option> or <option>--installation</option> options, this command
changes the default system-wide installation.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-h</option></term>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Show help options and exit.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-u</option></term>
<term><option>--user</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Update a per-user installation.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Update the default system-wide installation.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--installation=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Updates a system-wide installation specified by <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg>
among those defined in <filename>/etc/flatpak/installations.d/</filename>.
Using <option>--installation=default</option> is equivalent to using
<option>--system</option>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--share=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SUBSYSTEM</arg> must be one of: network, ipc.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--unshare=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SUBSYSTEM</arg> must be one of: network, ipc.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--socket=SOCKET</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SOCKET</arg> must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus,
ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nosocket=SOCKET</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SOCKET</arg> must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus,
ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--device=DEVICE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Expose a device to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">DEVICE</arg> must be one of: dri, kvm, shm, all.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nodevice=DEVICE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't expose a device to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">DEVICE</arg> must be one of: dri, kvm, shm, all.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--allow=FEATURE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow access to a specific feature. This updates
the [Context] group in the metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FEATURE</arg> must be one of:
devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
per-app-dev-shm.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para><para>
See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-finish</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for the meaning of the various features.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--disallow=FEATURE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Disallow access to a specific feature. This updates
the [Context] group in the metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FEATURE</arg> must be one of:
devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
per-app-dev-shm.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--filesystem=FILESYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application access to a subset of the filesystem.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg> can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents, xdg-download,
xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates, xdg-videos, xdg-run,
xdg-config, xdg-cache, xdg-data,
an absolute path, or a homedir-relative path like ~/dir or paths
relative to the xdg dirs, like xdg-download/subdir.
The optional :ro suffix indicates that the location will be read-only.
The optional :create suffix indicates that the location will be read-write and created if it doesn't exist.
This option can be used multiple times.
See the "[Context] filesystems" list in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-metadata</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details of the meanings of these filesystems.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--nofilesystem=FILESYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Undo the effect of a previous
<option>--filesystem=</option><arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg>
in the app's manifest or a lower-precedence layer of
overrides, and/or remove a previous
<option>--filesystem=</option><arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg>
from this layer of overrides.
This overrides the Context section of the
application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg> can take the same
values as for <option>--filesystem</option>, but the
<arg choice="plain">:ro</arg> and
<arg choice="plain">:create</arg> suffixes are not
used here.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para><para>
This option does not prevent access to a more
narrowly-scoped <option>--filesystem</option>.
For example, if an application has the equivalent of
<option>--filesystem=xdg-config/MyApp</option> in
its manifest or as a system-wide override, and
<literal>flatpak override --user --nofilesystem=home</literal>
as a per-user override, then it will be prevented from
accessing most of the home directory, but it will still
be allowed to access
<filename>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MyApp</filename>.
</para><para>
As a special case,
<option>--nofilesystem=host:reset</option>
will ignore all <option>--filesystem</option>
permissions inherited from the app manifest or a
lower-precedence layer of overrides, in addition to
having the behaviour of
<option>--nofilesystem=host</option>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--add-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Add generic policy option. For example, "--add-policy=subsystem.key=v1 --add-policy=subsystem.key=v2" would map to this metadata:
<programlisting>
[Policy subsystem]
key=v1;v2;
</programlisting>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--remove-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Remove generic policy option. This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--env=VAR=VALUE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Set an environment variable in the application.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--unset-env=VAR</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Unset an environment variable in the application.
This overrides the unset-environment entry in the [Context]
group of the metadata, and the [Environment] group.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--env-fd=<replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>
Read environment variables from the file descriptor
<replaceable>FD</replaceable>, and set them as if
via <option>--env</option>. This can be used to avoid
environment variables and their values becoming visible
to other users.
</para><para>
Each environment variable is in the form
<replaceable>VAR</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable>
followed by a zero byte. This is the same format used by
<literal>env -0</literal> and
<filename>/proc/*/environ</filename>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--own-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to own the well-known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--talk-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to talk to the well-known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-talk-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't allow the application to talk to the well-known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system-own-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to own the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the system bus.
If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to own all matching names.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system-talk-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application to talk to the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the system bus.
If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to talk to all matching names.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--system-no-talk-name=NAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't allow the application to talk to the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the system bus.
If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to talk to all matching names.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--persist=FILENAME</option></term>
<listitem><para>
If the application doesn't have access to the real homedir, make the (homedir-relative) path
<arg choice="plain">FILENAME</arg> a bind mount to the corresponding path in the per-application directory,
allowing that location to be used for persistent data.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--reset</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Remove overrides. If an <arg choice="plain">APP</arg> is given, remove the overrides for that
application, otherwise remove the global overrides.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--show</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Shows overrides. If an <arg choice="plain">APP</arg> is given, shows the overrides for that
application, otherwise shows the global overrides.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-v</option></term>
<term><option>--verbose</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Print debug information during command processing.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--ostree-verbose</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Print OSTree debug information during command processing.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
<command>$ flatpak override --nosocket=wayland org.gnome.gedit</command>
</para>
<para>
<command>$ flatpak override --filesystem=home org.mozilla.Firefox</command>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-run</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>