Flathub already allows you to install applications directly from your website

flathub one click

For those who still don't know or have heard about Flatub I can tell you quickly that it is an almost official app store that offers and distributes applications Linux software in Flatpak packages.

These packages are installed and run in an environment totally isolated from the system Therefore, it does not affect the system, giving us the advantage of having faster updates and without the need to restart the system.

Having said that Flathub developers have worked hard these last weeks with what they give us a surprise on their website, in which we already have the possibility to carry out installing some apps from the store directly from the website in our system.

At this time make available to us a list of applications available on the website, you can check it from this link app list.

Distributions that are directly supported for one-click installation are Fedora, Arch Linux, Mageia, and OpenSUSE.

Ubuntu support for Flatpak

Meanwhile in Ubuntu at the moment does not have official support, since the add-ons for the Flatpak packages are not officially in the distribution.

Because of this it is extremely necessary to add the Flathub repositories to the system and install the necessary plugins to use Flatpak.

All we have to do is add the following repository to the system to start enjoying the benefits offered by applications packaged in Flatpak.

At the moment the only drawback is that we still do not know what applications are available for this task and there is still a lot of work on the part of the Flathub team so that we have at least 80% of the functionality of the website to allow us to carry out the direct installation.

It is clear that developers have a lot of work ahead of them and it is a fact that the evolution of the store will have many improvements and benefits for its end users.