flatpak

intro

Flatpak allows to launch sandboxed applications outside distributions ecosystem (e.g. apt on Debian).
It is useful to get last release not supported by current distribution (web browser being a perfect example).

install

# apt install flatpak
$ flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

usage

Install an application

$ flatpak --user install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
$ flatpak -v --filesystem=/home/tmp:create --socket=pulseaudio run org.mozilla.firefox

Other commands

$ flatpak remotes
$ flatpak search firefox
$ flatpak list
$ flatpak list --app
$ flatpak update
$ flatpak --user update org.mozilla.firefox
$ flatpak --user uninstall org.mozilla.firefox
$ flatpak history

useful apps

org.mozilla.firefox
org.chromium.Chromium
org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full (mpeg codecs)