🥙 Installing Flatpak in Arch Linux

TL;DR

Flatpak great to instll apps in your system with out affect the core OS files it makes perfect to install any app you want with not do a mess in your OS, it could be simple but anyway I will show you how to getting started with flacpak.

📦 Install required packages

Install needed package and some dependencies (required at least for me to do SSO in apps like zoom, slack, etc)

sudo pacman -S flatpak xdg-desktop-portal-wlr xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

After install do a reboot to have all in order prior to install any app.

🔢 Install your first App

I needed to install zoom in my work machine, first you could try search:

flatpak search zoom

It will show you the available apps in flathub repo.

🪩Install command

To install an app you could use install command, below example you could install zoom

flatpak install us.zoom.Zoom

🪀 Run command

To run an app use run command as below example:

flatpak run us.zoom.Zoom

🐼 Conclusion

Flatpak is portable and distro agnostic way to install any app, great to use as option if you don't wanna mees up your system by installing apps.