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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).
FPAKMAN_DISK_CACHE: enables / disables disk cache. When disk cache is enabled, the installed applications data are loaded faster. Use 0 (disable) or 1 (enable, default).

Roadmap

Support for other packaging technologies
Memory and performance improvements