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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 where you can search, update, install and uninstall applications.
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").
Settings
You can change some application settings via environment variables or arguments (type fpakman --help to get more information).
- 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 cached API data. Default: 3600 (1 hour).
- FPAKMAN_ICON_EXPIRATION: define a custom expiration time in SECONDS for cached icons. Default: 300 (5 minutes).
Roadmap
- Support for other packaging technologies
- Memory and performance improvements