Flatpak GUI app

sergo75

Hi everyone, I am just thinking, if Solus OS has GUI app for install/uninstall Flatpak applications will be almost the perfect Linux distro.
Do you have any ideas is it gonna happen any time soon... ?

WetGeek

sergo75 if Solus OS has GUI app for install/uninstall Flatpak applications will be almost the perfect Linux distro.

I'm not sure what you mean by "almost..." 😊 Many of us think that Solus is already the perfect distro, and getting even better with each update.

Seriously, the Eopkg package manager is going to be replaced by an entirely new one, called Sol. I believe it will first appear in Solus 5.0, but perhaps a team member could confirm that based on how things are proceeding so far. The Solus Software Center has always been a front-end for Eopkg, and the new package manager will have a new graphical front-end. Flatpak will be handled gracefully by both.

Staudey

sergo75 Do you have any ideas is it gonna happen any time soon... ?

Can't give you an ETA but team members have been working on integrating eopkg in packagekit, which would enable Solus to use GNOME Software (draft implementation here) and (KDE) Discover for package installation, which both have flatpak support.

joluveba

WetGeek Seriously, the Eopkg package manager is going to be replaced by an entirely new one, called Sol. I believe it will first appear in Solus 5.0,

I thought that was old news? That is, there were plans for a new package manager, sol, but the current plan is that Solus 5 will be based on Serpent OS, and therefore the new package manager will be moss.

Edit: More info:

https://getsol.us/2023/04/18/a-new-voyage/

sol (eopkg replacement) – replaced by moss

MikeK61

I agree with Wetgeek here.
I`m using Bauh for nearly a year now it can handle both flatback and snap.

Phiqu

MikeK61

Didn't know bauh before but man, it's great. Many thanks for mention it. 😃

WetGeek

joluveba I thought that was old news?

You're quite right. I forgot all about that when I thought of my answer. Still, its a long way off, and plenty of time for me to forget it again.

linuxer

Staudey

Very very very good news these. A simple way to utilise flatpaks through both most established stores used in Linux! But will snap packages then be in the same position if you know? Even though they don't keep noise about it, snaps are used by millions and essential for software availability in such huge amount of cases. For me too; i use both flatpak and snap quite 50-50.

Both work great now!

Damadduke

WetGeek Forget what?

joluveba

WetGeek No problem! At first, I thought that plans had changed again, and we would have sol instead of moss. Then I realized that it's just a misunderstanding.

I wonder what moss, and Solus 5, will be like. Anyways, I wish that Solus has a long life.

WetGeek

Damadduke Forget what?

I forgot that the plans to create Sol had been replaced by newer plans to use Moss as the new package manager for Solus 5.0. As I said, though, such a change is still a long way off.

Damadduke

WetGeek I was just kidding. Sorry if there was confusion.

I'm new around here as I just installed Solus on my Framework laptop and really like it so far. I'm looking to settle down with an OS and this might be it.

mbevks

I like to install and update in command line but when I uninstall, I use a flatpak program, warehouse: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.flattool.Warehouse.

Maybe this tool will help?