fpakman

Non-official graphical user interface for Flatpak application management. It is a tray icon that let the user known when new updates are available and an application management panel.

Developed with:

• Python3 and Qt5.

Requirements

• libappindicator3 ( for GTK3 desktop environments )

Debian-based distros

• python3-venv

Arch-based distros

• python
• python-requests
• python-virtualenv
• python-pip
• python-pyqt5

Distribution

PyPi

sudo pip3 install fpakman

AUR

As fpakman package. There is also a staging version (fpakman-staging) but is intended for testing and may not work properly.

Manual installation:

If you prefer a manual and isolated installation, type the following commands within the cloned project folder:

python3 -m venv env
env/bin/pip install .
env/bin/fpakman

Autostart

In order to autostart the application, use your Desktop Environment settings to register it as a startup application / script ("fpakman"). (P.S: the installation script currently does not do that)

Settings

You can change some application settings via environment variables:

• FPAKMAN_UPDATE_NOTIFICATION: enable or disable system updates notifications. Use 0 (disable) or 1 (enable, default).
• FPAKMAN_CHECK_INTERVAL: define the updates check interval in seconds. Default: 60.
• FPAKMAN_LOCALE: define a custom app translation for a given locale key (e.g: 'pt', 'en', 'es', ...). Default: system locale.
• FPAKMAN_CACHE_EXPIRATION: define a custom expiration time in SECONDS for application data retrieved from the origin API. Default: 3600 (1 hour).

Roadmap

• Support for other packaging technologies