Flatpak
Flatpak is an open source containerized package format similar to Snap. While Snap relies on a central repository for software, Flatpak can be installed from different sources. The primary source is Flathub. A vanilla installation of Ubuntu 23.10 doesn’t include support for Flatpak.
Let’s install flatpak by opening up a terminal and entering the command:
$ sudo apt install flatpak
Some software is easiest to install in Ubuntu 23.10 using Flatpak. For example, with Ubuntu the easiest way to install Tauon Music Box (read Luke’s review), an awesome music player, is with Flatpak. In a terminal, issue the command.
$ flatpak install flathub com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb
However, this just yields an error “no remote refs found similar to flathub” error.
We need to run the following command:
$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Now we can reissue the install command:
$ flatpak install flathub com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb
We now need to system permissions to access our music collection.
$ flatpak override --user com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb --filesystem=/mnt/mymusic/ where /mnt/mymusic/ is the path to my music collection.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – System Update and Firmware
Page 2 – Installing Software
Page 3 – Ubuntu Desktop with GNOME 45
Page 4 – Graphics
Page 5 – Steam and Heroic Games Launcher
Page 6 – Flatpak
Page 7 – Swap File and Summary
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC | |
|---|---|
| Part 1 | Introduction to the series with interrogation of system |
| Part 2 | Benchmarking the Mini PC |
| Part 3 | Installing Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop |
| Part 4 | Configuring Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop |
| Part 5 | Power Consumption |
| Part 6 | P-Cores and E-Cores |
| Part 7 | Gaming |
| Part 8 | Installing and Configuring Manjaro |
| Part 9 | BIOS options |