I need to install Chirp flatpak (Closed do to Reformat)

Not to completely jump off the thread topic (but I'm going to ) but is what we have sufficient? I'm not a user of either snaps or flatpack - I checked the wiki info and it seems sufficient to me (thank you thewaiter ), but let me know if additional items should be added, etc..

I'm happy to add whatever. Thank you, hippytaff !

I think it's snaps that Bodhi discourages use of, mainly because if left the way ubuntu does it, apt can automatically install the snap daemon without your approval (when trying to install certain apps), so if you wish to enable snap support there's one extra step besides just installing snapd (deleting a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d).

Flatpak, like most optional stuff in Bodhi, is not preinstalled, but it is not disabled, and I don't think its use is discouraged by bodhi unless there's an alternative in official repositories.

Back to the actual issue tho, I see this is marked as solved but don't see a solution posted.

To get rid of the error listed in first post, add the flathub repository to flatpak then it'll offer the runtime to you automatically when you install the flatpak file you downloaded:

And as that text says, you do gotta reboot before it appears in the menu...

To use the tar version of chrip on BL6 is harder cuz it requires python2 gtk2 modules that are no longer included in focal repo, I gave up trying, but believe it'd be possible with effort... (easier on BL5.1)

There are arguments about that, but I think the general consensus from bodhi team is flatpak is preferred over snap, but users can do whatever they want and both container formats are supported by Bodhi.  But in cases like this one (wanting to install chirp) you dont have a choice anyway, you either install flatpak, or figure out how to use that tarball (more complicated), because they don't offer a snap (or deb) package.   There are cases the other way, apps only offered in snap package too.

Snap and Flatpak both add a little overhead, but flatpak is more "open".  Like for example, you downloaded that flatpak file yourself, you didnt get it from a flatpak repository or app store.   While there is one main popular flatpak repo (flathub, which I think is connected to redhat/ibm), flatpak itself is not restricted at all, anyone can host a flathub repo if they want, and anyone can add any flatpak repos to their flatpak sources.

With snap, Canonical controls the only snap store.  Plus, what I mentioned earlier about snapd getting force installed when trying to use apt to install certain packages (notably chromium).  Apt is the debian package manager that's only *supposed* to be for deb packages from places in your apt sources list.  But starting with Ubuntu 20.04, Canonical is breaking that by force installing snapd and the snap packaged app in those situations, taking away peoples control and choice.  Hence, Bodhi Linux disabled that in BL6, similar to Mint which is a very popular Ubuntu based distro that, like Bodhi, includes ubuntu repositories in apt sources in addition to their own.