io.elementary.sideload.AppImage

AppImage of the "Sideload" utility from elementaryOS that installs Flatpaks from Flathub by pressing the "Install" button on any browser

Requirements

• flatpak
• libflatpak0
• libgranite6

Sources

• Original source https://launchpad.net/~elementary-os/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+sourcepub/12720625/+listing-archive-extra
• Original deb package io.elementary.sideload_6.0.2+r795+pkg10~ubuntu6.1_amd64.deb

Installation

1. Download the AppImage and put it into a $PATH, for example /usr/local/bin, and made it executable:

   sudo wget https://github.com/ivan-hc/io.elementary.sideload.AppImage/releases/download/6.0.2/io.elementary.sideload-x86_64.AppImage -O /usr/local/bin/io.elementary.sideload
   sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/io.elementary.sideload
   

2. Place the *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications

   mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivan-hc/io.elementary.sideload.AppImage/main/io.elementary.sideload.desktop -O ~/.local/share/applications/io.elementary.sideload.desktop && chmod a+x ~/.local/share/applications/io.elementary.sideload.desktop
   

3. Place the io.elementary.sideload.svg icon in ~/.local/share/icons

   mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/ && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivan-hc/io.elementary.sideload.AppImage/main/io.elementary.sideload.svg -O ~/.local/share/icons/io.elementary.sideload.svg
   

4. Go to https://flathub.org and click the "Install" button of an app you're interested in and select "Sideload" to open the file. If this does not work, right-click on the downloaded .flatpakref file (only the first time) to enable Sideload as the default app for this extension.

Alternative solution

For an alternative way to open flatpakref files, visit github.com/ivan-hc/flatpak-install-action