Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.

See https://flatpak.org/ for more information.

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
• Souk: A Flatpak-only app store
• Flat-manager: A tool for managing Flatpak repositories