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When combined with using `git subtree` for our mandatory vendored dependencies, this avoids differences between what we ship in our git repository (available to users via `git clone` or by unpacking the result of `git archive`), and what's in our official source code releases (which are the result of `meson dist`). Differences between those artifacts would provide an attractive place for attackers to hide malware, for example in CVE-2024-3094, so avoiding differences is a good "nothing up my sleeve" mechanism to make it less appealing for attackers to target Flatpak. With default Meson settings, the wrap files will be used automatically to download our suggested versions of these dependencies, unless the `-Dsystem_bubblewrap=...`, `-Dsystem_dbus_proxy=...` Meson options are used. In environments where automatic downloads are disabled via `-Dwrap_mode=nodownload`, for example many Linux distributions, specifying a system copy becomes mandatory. Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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