Here's how to install flatpak.
$ just means your using the regular user terminal,
if you typed "sudo su" you'd
be at the root terminal which is #.
As of this moment the current
version is
https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20220515.flatpakRest
of the work is from the terminal.
First, install Flatpak:
$ sudo
apt install flatpak
The other howtos seem to have missed this next step.
You need to use
flatpak to install the “freedesktop” platform. First update
flatpak
and your paths.
$ flatpak update -v
This will give you
a warning about paths, something like:
Note that the
directories
'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/[username]/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'
are
not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
variable, so
applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your
desktop until the
session is restarted.
Since we now have to log out anyway, now might be a
good time to make
sure you are in the dialout group.
Use the
groups command to list your active groups. If the group
“dialout” does not
appear, add yourself to the group (replace
[username] with your
username):
$ sudo usermod -aG dialout [username]
Now restart your
session (or computer) and return to the terminal.
~$ flatpak update
-v
Looking for updates…
Nothing to do.
Don’t worry about
installation directory warnings if you haven’t
installed anything yet. Those
will be created later. Important is that
we got rid of the path warning.
Moving on….
Now you need to get the Freedesktop repository
installed:
$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub
https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepoand
then install the Freedesktop Platform:
$ flatpak install flathub
org.freedesktop.Platform//19.08
This might take a while its a big
(~0.5Gb) download. Grab some coffee
and make some QSO’s….. Maybe check out my
club’s website:
http://w6ek.orgFinally
we can install Chirp! (replace .flatpack filename with your
downloaded
version)
$ flatpak install
Downloads/chirp-daily-20220515.flatpak
You’re done! You can run chirp
from your applications menu or from the
command like like this:
$
flatpak run com.danplanet.chirp
My distro has a defective GIMP
application so I used flatpak to install the app from there, the only negative
is that I cannot type "gmp" from a terminal and have gimp run, I have to use teh
menu entry.
Try it - it's excellent and
it's the future of applications in Linux.