Flatpak, snap, appimage

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Hi.

As you can read in bero post, most of us think that snap/flatpak are insecure and we assume that users may use them at their own risk.
I dont know if you are talking now on OpenMandriva or on other distro.
Anyway:

  1. snap is not supported and not provided by OpenMandriva
  2. appimage is suggested to use - if you really need to use external software, at least appimage is single binary.
  3. flatpak is provide by OpenMandriva but you use it at your own risk.

To install flatpak on OMV you need:
as root

dnf install flatpak

and now it would be good to add some repository with flatpak packages. The most popular and probably official is flathub. You will add it by command:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

System restart is needed.

Now you can install flatpak package from command line for example lmms by command:

flatpak install flathub io.lmms.LMMS

You can browse flathub repo here: Flathub—An app store and build service for Linux

Also if you want install flatpaks in GUI or browse flathub repo in GUI, then you need install discover app by command as root:

dnf install discover

There is also a third option - manual download flatpak packages by the browser.
What you write about is a problem of the browser itself, which does not recognize the downloaded format properly.
Therefore, you should download the flatpak file through your browser and then install it using the console or using the GUI discover.

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