https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak

Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak

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Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak
• Owner: flatpak
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2016-05-19T14:19:21.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-25T15:36:50.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T10:03:09.679Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://flatpak.org
• Size: 44.6 MB
• Stars: 4,239
• Watchers: 96
• Forks: 404
• Open Issues: 1,039
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: COPYING
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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README

        


  



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](https://matrix.to/#/#flatpak:matrix.org), on [the mailing list](https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/flatpak), and on [the Flathub Discourse](https://discourse.flathub.org/).

Read documentation for Flatpak [here](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/index.html).

# Contributing

Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help:

* Fix [one of the issues](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/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](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-docs)

* Find a bug and [submit a detailed report](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/new) including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce

* Add your favorite application to [Flathub](https://flathub.org) by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and [submitting it](https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission)

* Improve the [Flatpak support](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Distribution) in your favorite Linux distribution

# Hacking

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

# Related Projects

Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem:

* [Flatseal](https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal): An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI

* [Flat-manager](https://github.com/flatpak/flat-manager): A tool for managing Flatpak repositories