mattprice@matt-pc ~ $ flatpak install flathub org.gabmus.hydrapaper Looking for matches… error: No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’
I did a fresh install to play around with the plasma envionment, and while installing apps I found that flatpak doesn't work out of the box.
According to the Flatpak page for Solus installation, the package xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is supposed to be installed alongside it.
Flatpaks GitHub for that package mentions GNOME infrastructure, which I am obviously not using. eopkg confirmed it wasn't installed already. I decided to skip that and just run the next command to add the FlatHub repo.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
After that, no issues.
mattprice@matt-pc ~ $ flatpak install flathub org.gabmus.hydrapaper
Looking for matches…
Required runtime for org.gabmus.hydrapaper/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: y
org.gabmus.hydrapaper permissions:
ipc fallback-x11 wayland x11 dri file access [1] dbus access [2] bus ownership [3]
[1] /usr/share/backgrounds, /usr/share/gnome:ro, home:ro, xdg-config/autostart, xdg-run/dconf, ~/.config/dconf:ro, ~/.config/sway/config, ~/.swaylock/config
[2] ca.desrt.dconf, org.freedesktop.Flatpak, org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig, org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
[3] org.gabmus.hydrapaper, org.gabmus.hydrapaper.Daemon
ID Branch Op Remote Download
1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 21.08 i flathub 130.9 MB / 131.2 MB
2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.0 i flathub 1.5 MB / 1.5 MB
3. [✓] org.gabmus.hydrapaper.Locale stable i flathub 3.6 kB / 67.4 kB
4. [✓] org.gnome.Platform.Locale 41 i flathub 17.7 kB / 336.5 MB
5. [✓] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze 3.22 i flathub 114.0 kB / 162.8 kB
6. [✓] org.gnome.Platform 41 i flathub 241.0 MB / 289.1 MB
7. [✓] org.gabmus.hydrapaper stable i flathub 1.1 MB / 1.5 MB
Installation complete.Now, hydrapaper didn't end up working properly, but that's not related to the install process. That app is just broken. Apparently, it doesn't play well via flatpak install. I Installed VSCode with flatpak and everything is fine otherwise.
EDIT: Hydrapaper is not compatible with Plasma. The "broken" thought was referring to issues people were having on gnome based desktops.