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Flatpak
Flatpak is a cross-distribution package manager for linux systems.
Setup
The flatpak package can be installed by most distribution specific package
managers (e.g. pacman or yay).
After installation it is important to add flathub,
a source for many Flatpak packages.
The addition of this can be done by running
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo.
For browsing and installing Flatpak packages via a graphic user interface the software management suite called Discover can be used. It requires the Flatpak backend.
Usage
Installing software
When software installation is done with Flatpak it is recommended to pass the
--user so the software is not installed system-wide but for the user only.
In practice it looks like the following:
flatpak install --user <package to install>.
Running software
Software installed via Flatpak can be run by typing the full package path into
the command line, for example com.makemkv.MakeMKV.