Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. See https://flatpak.org/ for more information. Flatpak is available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and can be installed from there. See https://flatpak.org/setup/ for quick setup instructions for many distributions. Community discussion happens in [#flatpak:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#flatpak:matrix.org), on [the mailing list](https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/flatpak), and on [the Flathub Discourse](https://discourse.flathub.org/). Read documentation for Flatpak [here](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/index.html). # Contributing Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help: * Fix [one of the issues](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/) and submit a PR * Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR * Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at http://docs.flatpak.org and developed over in [flatpak-docs](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-docs) * Find a bug and [submit a detailed report](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/new) including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce * Add your favorite application to [Flathub](https://flathub.org) by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and [submitting it](https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission) * Improve the [Flatpak support](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Distribution) in your favorite Linux distribution # Hacking See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) # Related Projects Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem: * [Flatseal](https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal): An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI * [Flat-manager](https://github.com/flatpak/flat-manager): A tool for managing Flatpak repositories