This article will describe installing Flatpak for application container.
Table of Contents
1 Install flatpak
Install flatpak package.
$ sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm flatpak
2 Install runtime
Install runtime after importing GPG key. The org.gnome.Platform is runtime for running application. The org.gnome.Sdk is runtime for developing application.
$ sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm wget
$ wget https://sdk.gnome.org/keys/gnome-sdk.gpg
$ flatpak --user remote-add --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome \
https://sdk.gnome.org/repo/
$ flatpak --user install gnome org.gnome.Platform 3.24
$ flatpak --user install gnome org.gnome.Sdk 3.24
3 Install application
Install application after importing GPG key. This article installs org.gnome.gedit.
$ flatpak --user remote-add --gpg-import=gnome-sdk.gpg gnome-apps \
https://sdk.gnome.org/repo-apps/
$ flatpak --user install gnome-apps org.gnome.gedit stable
Run org.gnome.gedit.
$ flatpak run org.gnome.gedit --version gedit - Version 3.22.0