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This is more compliant with FHS specification. Most notably, /etc is not appropriate to hold distro configuration, which is a common use for the remotes.d feature. It is better practice to put things under /usr/share, and let the system administrator modify /etc to their will, of course giving them priority. Update documentation to reflect this change. In the process, move to use g_build_filename
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.
See https://flatpak.org/ for more information.
Flatpak is available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and can be installed from there. See https://flatpak.org/setup/ for quick setup instructions for many distributions.
Community discussion happens in #flatpak:matrix.org, on the mailing list, and on the Flathub Discourse.
Read documentation for Flatpak here.
Contributing
Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help:
- Fix one of the issues and submit a PR
- Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR
- Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at http://docs.flatpak.org and developed over in flatpak-docs
- Find a bug and submit a detailed report including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce
- Add your favorite application to Flathub by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and submitting it
- Improve the Flatpak support in your favorite Linux distribution
Hacking
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Related Projects
Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem:
- Flatseal: An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI
- Flat-manager: A tool for managing Flatpak repositories