{"id":10281,"date":"2020-06-12T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10281"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:35:15","slug":"install-flatpak-apps-software-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/install-flatpak-apps-software-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Flatpak Apps in Software Center in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/software-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>This simple tutorial shows Ubuntu beginners how to enable searching and installing Flatpak applications from Software Center in Ubuntu 20.04.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Snap<\/b>, <b>Flatpak<\/b>, and <b>Appimage<\/b> make more and more applications install or run easily in Ubuntu and other Linux Desktops. While <i>Appimage<\/i> is non-install package and <i>Snap<\/i> has been made into Ubuntu Software out-of-the-box, this quick tip shows how to make <i>Flatpak<\/i> packages available to search and install in Software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-gnomesoftware.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-gnomesoftware.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-gnomesoftware-450x291.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> First open terminal by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard. When terminal opens, run command to install flatpak plugin:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-plugin-600x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-plugin-600x113.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-plugin-450x85.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flatpak-plugin.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Add the main flathub repository by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-450x75.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.)<\/b> Finally restart your computer. In Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 19.10, you should be available to search for and install applications in Flatpak format.<\/p>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 20.04<\/b>, since Ubuntu Software has switched from <i>Gnome Software<\/i> to <i>Snap Store<\/i>, you have to launch <b>Gnome Software<\/b> rather than <i>Ubuntu Software<\/i> to install applications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/launch-software-450x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/launch-software-450x260.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/launch-software.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows Ubuntu beginners how to enable searching and installing Flatpak applications from Software Center in Ubuntu 20.04. Snap, Flatpak, and Appimage make more and more applications install or run easily in Ubuntu and other Linux Desktops. While Appimage is non-install package and Snap has been made into Ubuntu Software out-of-the-box, this quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1929],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome-software"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}