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 Example of installing software with Flatpak | |
| Original author(s) | Alexander Larsson |
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| Developer(s) | Flatpak Team[1] |
| Initial release | September 2015[2] |
| Stable release | 1.14.10[3] 
/ 14 August 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| License | LGPL-2.1-or-later[4] |
| Website | flatpak |
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system.[5][6] Flatpak was known as xdg-app until 2016.[7]
- ^ "About". Archived from the original on 2023-07-14. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
- ^ "Flatpak's History". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
- ^ "1.14.10". 14 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "COPYING". GitHub. 31 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
- ^ Larsson, Alexander (29 April 2016). "Using bubblewrap in xdg-app". Alexander Larsson: Cool links and commentary. GNOME. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ Willis, Nathan (2015-01-21). "GNOME and application sandboxing revisited". LWN. Archived from the original on 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ^ Larsson, Alexander (9 May 2016). "Renamed to flatpak in git". freedesktop.org. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.