[Feature request] Flatpak-compatible version

Author: boredsquirrelCreated May 14, 2023Updated Sep 14, 2026
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At least big packages like Libreoffice are often used from Flathub, as these are more stable, up to date and work on every distro.

Installing the native version of the whole libreoffice suite is extreme bloat, Libreoffice takes longer to compile than the Linux kernel.

All you need to do is replace the libreoffice command with /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=libreoffice.

I can imagine this could be done automatically. You would then have two docker variants or even two native variants, one for the Flatpak libreoffice. The rest of the packages is rather small and/or not available as flatpak.

Because otherwise running it locally would make no sense at all on systems like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, OpenSuse microOS etc.

You could run them in a Distrobox/Toolbox I guess (will try and report), but duplicating Libreoffice is insane.

Source: Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF