I’m customizing my fresh installation of Manjaro here and I’m trying to become familiar with Manjaro. I have had some great help in the last few days. I’m hoping I can have some input here on trying to install Gimp flatpak, which seems a bit different than when I have tried to install on another distribution. I normally see the gear icon on the desktop and click on it and the app quickly launches. I couldn’t seem to do that here and instead, installed it by command line. But I don’t see an icon on how to launch, which is what I’m used to. Below is the terminal output following the complete install. I would like to know where the flatpak icon may be found, bc I don’t see it anywhere. My intention is to install the github customization of photogimp to transition my workflow from adobe products.
ID Branch Op Remote Download
1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 20.08 i flathub 105.8 MB / 106.4 MB
2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-470-63-01 1.4 i flathub 223.3 MB / 223.4 MB
3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.0 i flathub 1.5 MB / 1.5 MB
4. [✓] org.gimp.GIMP.Manual 2.10 i flathub 48.4 MB / 876.5 MB
5. [✓] org.gnome.Platform.Locale 40 i flathub 17.7 kB / 333.8 MB
6. [✓] org.gnome.Platform 40 i flathub 313.6 MB / 363.9 MB
7. [✓] org.gimp.GIMP stable i flathub 94.1 MB / 121.3 MB
Installation complete.
[oscar@oscar-z87xoc ~]$ flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//stable
Gtk-Message: 13:16:14.441: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:16:14.441: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:16:15.974: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:16:15.974: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
[oscar@oscar-z87xoc ~]$
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I USED THIS WEBSITE: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/; I cut and past that command to install when the download button didn't do anything.
Thanks for the reply. I’m still a bit lost. I’m not sure what the difference between the repo and add/remove software is -or if there is a difference. The reason for trying to do what I described above is in order to install that photogimp plugin which requires the flatpak.
Thanks!!!
Add/Remove Software (also named Package Manager) is the graphical frontend for Pamac, which is Manjaro’s package manager. It manages packages from the official repositories, but also has third-party support for the AUR (user repository), Flatpak, and Snap.
Looks like it’s available as a Snap package, which you can install from Add/Remove Software. Go to Preferences and enable Snap support, then refresh. Search for “photogimp” and it should display in the results.
I don’t see snap on my add remove programs, so I downloaded snap-pac 3.0 after looking but can’t get it to do what you said. What am I doing wrong here? How can I get this to download?
K don’t know, I found the command line to install snap then found the command line to install photogimp. I hope all this downloading doesn’t confuse the system and have my OS start acting strange. Will update
In my case there is no option for Snap support or Flatpak under Preferences - Third Party. Why this can be the case? Can this be because I chose minimal Manjaro Gnome installation?
What I’ve done so far, followed trough instructions in Wiki for Flatpak setup. But these steps don’t work quite well for me. Flatpak requires gnome-software to be installed, that’s separate peace of software just for flatpaks, and, in addition, installed apps do not appear anywhere and can’t be launched.
This does the job. I’ve undone previous operations and installed libpamac-flatpak-plugin. Now I can enable Flatpaks, option is shown in preferences.
But… I have issue that I can not install a Flatpak. I hit Apply but nothing happens. No errors, no messages, it just stays at pending stage.
Weirdly enough, today pamac is installing flatpaks as it should. Did nothing about it since yesterday. Turned on PC, opened software manager to check again if it’s working and it is. Even though I did reboot yesterday and it didn’t help. Well, let’s call it magic . Thanks!