Can't find flatpak solutions for these packages I'd like to install

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I can’t find flatpak packages for the following apps. But

  • they could be included in other flatpak packages or
  • they could already be included in the standard linux-kde distribution

The list: (quite a list but I am happy with all information)

  • catdoc - a script that enables baloo to search and index ooxml files
  • exfatprogs
  • falkon
  • ffmpegthumbs
  • flac
  • frozen-bubble
  • gnome-disk-utility
  • htop
  • hunspell-nl hyphen-nl
  • imagemagick
  • k3b k3b-i18n
  • kate
  • krusader
  • merkuro
  • p7zip
  • partitionmanager
  • plasma-widgets-addons
  • zstd
  • gettext
  • subversion
  • dolphin-plugins
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A partial answer for the ones I know:

  • catdoc - included in base KDE Linux
  • falkon - available on Flathub as org.kde.falkon
  • fmpegthumbs - included in base KDE Linux (and used by default as a Dolphin previewer)
  • frozen-bubble - available on Flathub as org.frozen_bubble.frozen-bubble
  • htop - included in base KDE Linux
  • hunspell - included in base KDE Linux, but NL dictionary not included
  • k3b - not available as Flatpak, appears to be blocked by CDROM device access issues
  • kate - available on Flathub as org.kde.kate
  • krusader - not available on “stable” Flathub, may be available on Flathub Beta
  • merkuro - available on Flathub as org.kde.merkuro
  • partitionmanager - included in base KDE Linux
  • plasma-widgets-addons - appears to be included in base KDE Linux, as far as I can see all the relevant widgets are available
  • zstd - included in base KDE Linux
  • gettext - included in base KDE Linux

Hope that helps a bit.

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Wow! What an answer, fantastic!

That would leave the following unanswered:

  • exfatprogs - well that isn’t of such vital importance but one could stumble upon a situation where it would be convenient,
  • flac - I don’t need it so much but if you need it, it would be hard to not have
  • imagemagic - I guess not so bad to not have, “no” can also sometimes be an answer
  • p7zip - I hope linux-kde will have enough archive tools on board
  • subversion - I use it when I’m translating KDE
  • dolphin-plugins - well, I have to manage without I guess
4

Would assuming that it be bundled in with whatever media player be wrong? I thought the whole point of flatpaks was that the app doesn’t need to rely on optional dependencies which may or may not be included in the base system.

5

Oh yeah… That would be easy of course. Thank you for your reply. I’m quite new in the world of flatpaks you see…

6

I think so. You have 7z and 7za on the command line, and the Flatpak version of Ark seems to support 7z files fine. (Support for encrypted 7z in Flatpak Ark was previously missing, but was added 1-2 months ago.)

7

flac and dolphin-plugins are pre-installed.

CLI 7zip support is included in the image as well as supported by Ark, which is itself pre-installed.

exfat-utils is pre-installed, but not exfatprogs. If needed should be gettable using one of the methods listed in Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Linux .

Subversion should also also be covered by Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Linux .

8

I asked if svn could be included in the lokalize flatpak Subversion in Lokalize flatpak - Requests - Flathub Discourse . For me that would be very practical.

Curious what’s going to happen.

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That would be possible, and then you could invoke it from within the Flatpak bundle like so:

flatpak run --command=svn org.kde.lokalize

And you could alias this to svn like so in your .zshrc file:

alias svn="flatpak run --command=svn org.kde.lokalize"