Does anyone know if there are plans underway to allow user-level flatpak installations using GNOME Software?
I recently created a second user account on my main Silverblue workstation for a visiting family member. I assumed the user would be able to install any local apps they needed through the Software store, however Software attempts to install all apps as system-wide, which of course required me to input my own credentials for authentication. This seems counterintuitive to the overall goals of the flatpak platform.
I know we can simply install userspace apps on the command line with --user, however the family member isn’t as proficient with Linux.
I’ve been doing some flatpak packaging last month following the Flathub tutorial, and somehow in my gnome software now I have the option to install flatpaks as user in the drop-down. Something about the remotes that I needed to change to test the flatpak files I generated.
Good to know it’s possible! I’m going to play around with the remote configs and see if I can accomplish the same for any future user accounts.
I use flatpaks for almost everything now, but I admit I haven’t spent much time on their backend management aside from flatseal.