I recently reinstalled my system due to my testing with f44 messing with grub.
Before in Discover software centre I just had one ‘Flathub’ option, now I’m seeing both ‘Flathub’ and ‘Flathub (user)’.
I stranged it as I thought flatpaks were just user installed.
I was going to ask why this changed but now I think that first time I installed from the Everything ISO and now I reinstalled from the kde spin so I have fedora-third-party installed and this may be the cause.
Anyway, this then basically means I now can install flatpaks for other eventual users too?
Thanks.
edit: I saw these options in the command-line too. I’ll stick with the user option. Maybe the choice came with the new flatpack version (the upstream changelog jumps from version 1.16.1 to 1.17.0 and fedora has version 1.16.6).
Flatpak has two installation options, “system” and “user”.
System flatpak are available to all users, but requires root to install and update (though most distros, including Fedora, have polkit rules that allow you to install and update them without requiring a password).
User flatpaks are available only to your user. It’s nice if you don’t have root access and theoretically safer since it doesn’t require privilege escalation to install and update.
For the most part, which one you use does not matter. But if you do have multiple users on the same system, user flatpaks may take up more space since each user has their own copies of the apps and runtimes.
This has been there for quite a while. The user installation is located in your home dir and the applications installed there won’t be available to other users.
I strongly prefer to use the user installation as it does not require root permissions. (The system installation does require root but Fedora helpfully ships a bypass polkit policy which I also do not like)
Then probably there was a missing package in my earlier installation. I used to get only one option for Flathub (plus the fedora rpms and flatpak when available).
Thank you both.