How to add Flatpaks to an image based on new 'main' template?

[joelewing]

I feel like I'm missing something here in how the new images are structured. Is there a packages file where I can add additional Flatpaks?

[xynydev]

It's a bit confusing rn, but the graph I made which is currently in the main repo is what I believe the path to be.

The main image is a common upstream that adds packages used in other ublue images. If you want to configure the flatpaks to install on the image-side (which will still be installed on your computer and not in the image), in the future, you'll use the startingpoint template and configure them there (in the same manner as recipe.yml does in the currently-being-retired base).
I don't believe the main image will be used for installing flatpaks, and I think that it should be made just a normal repo instead of a template.

[castrojo]

We're waiting on finishing the flatpak installer, which is just a glossier version of the zenity installer: https://github.com/ublue-os/yafti

It shouldn't take long, if you REALLY need flatpaks and can't wait (like me) I copied ublue-firstboot from base to put into my own image but hoping to wrap up the flatpak thing soon.

[joelewing]

Thank you so much for your response! The plan is to make a polished XFCE image based on Vauxite, as XFCE can be a bit rough out of the box. I'm looking at Xubuntu as well as the XFCE variants of MX-Linux, Manjaro, Linux Mint, and Zorin for inspiration.

And then fork that to form a personal installer for my own needs. Curious as to what extent this approach can replace something like Ansible.

As things stand right now, I'll hold off on adding Flatpaks until yafti lands :)

[castrojo]

You don't have to replace if you don't want to, Ansible playbooks can just go right in, check out this example: https://github.com/coreos/layering-examples/tree/main/ansible-firewalld

A notable exception is the flatpak ansible modules won't work for the same reason we have to do flatpak installation post-install, which is a shame. However it also means there's an entire world of playbooks that we'll be able to use.

[castrojo]

It's coming along! You can follow progress here: https://github.com/ublue-os/yafti

[joelewing]

Very cool!

[MeowieGamer]

cool