What are Flatpaks? How to install and permissions

Flatpaks have many advantages. They can be sandboxed to protect your system. They usually contain newer software versions than the repositories. And they are distribution independent, meaning they work as they should on any distribution that supports Flatpaks.

In this video I'll explain how they work, how to install them, and how to change the permissions they have.

Flathub: https://www.flathub.org

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00:00 Introduction
00:26 How Flatpaks work
01:50Installation
02:35 Using a package manager
03:03 Installing from Flathub
03:24 Update
03:33 PRO: newer versions
04:01 Install from terminal
05:09 PRO: Obtain software not available in your distribution
05:48 Flatpak permissions (GUI)
07:16 Flatpak permissions (terminal)
09:14 Example of denying access to the file system
10:13 Conclusion
10:36 The most important part

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