Install, manage & run Flatpak applications on standard user accounts

[antoninchadima]

The best way to run bauh with AppImage is without sudo from a standard user account.
This way you install your AppImage applications locally and you can run them from bauh as a standard user (recommended).
Everything for Appimage runs now in bauh OK - there is no problem.

I wish that Flatpak in bauh would behave the same way.
At this moment you need sudo to install Flatpak (maybe you could run bauh as a standard user by tweaking policykit...).
Flatpak applications are therefore installed globally and launched from the bauh GUI under the root user.

It would be nice to have the option to install Flatpak locally under the standard user.
It is done by appending the option --user in the CLI.
For example:
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.Thunderbird --user
At the same time running bauh as a standard user would launch Flatpak applications as a standard user (recommended :-).

[antoninchadima]

I have checked the code. For per-user Flatpak installation you should also use:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo --user

[vinifmor]

Hi @antoninchadima . It is a good idea. I'm going to test this --user parameter and think the best approach for bauh.

[antoninchadima]

I'm using myself a modified version of bauh with the --user parameter for flatpak and i didn't find any issue yet.

[vinifmor]

Cool. I've been thinking about 3 approaches:

1. A dialog asking to the user if the app should be installed only for himself or for all users (system)
2. A config file where you could set the installation type: user or system
3. A mix of above

What do you think ?

[antoninchadima]

great work is done with pre 0.8.1
I like the way it is implemented

ps: and 3., as you did, is great :-)

[vinifmor]

Thank you @antoninchadima . The official release is out. Let me know if you have any trouble.

[antoninchadima]

everything is OK