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Asked: 2021-01-02 07:18:11 +0800 CST

Old Flatpak version in Focal repo: no Chromium for me?

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Tried to install flatpak Chromium, to no avail:

 5. [✗] org.chromium.Chromium                     stable           i            flathub           < 102.8 MB

Error: org.chromium.Chromium needs a later flatpak version
error: Failed to install org.chromium.Chromium: app/org.chromium.Chromium/x86_64/stable needs a later flatpak version (1.8.2)

Flatpak 1.8.2 is available starting with Groovy:

$ rmadison flatpak
 flatpak | 0.11.3-3               | bionic/universe          | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
 flatpak | 1.0.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | bionic-security/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
 flatpak | 1.0.9-0ubuntu0.1       | bionic-updates/universe  | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
 flatpak | 1.6.3-1                | focal/universe           | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 flatpak | 1.6.5-0ubuntu0.1       | focal-updates/universe   | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 flatpak | 1.8.2-1                | groovy/universe          | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 flatpak | 1.8.4-1                | hirsute/universe         | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x

I guess I could remove the official Flatpak and use some PPA instead, but it would pretty much undermine the whole idea of getting your software from a trusted source. Snap Chromium is painfully slow on my system for some reason. (As well as snap Firefox.) So, any options left?

20.04

1 Answers

  1. There is nothing to fear.

    Official FlatPak setup guide https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu/ lists the PPA.

    So you have to open terminal and type:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flatpak/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium

    Note: I'm using Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS, so the PPA is also needed for me.

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