Reply To: flatpaks installed, don’t appear in the menu or the app select

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December 18, 2025 at 11:05 am #191914
ninos
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    Brian Masinick wrote:

    Flatpaks are not impossible to use with antiX

    True.

    In an old laptop with antiX 23.2 that I use for my experiments,
    I finally noticed that in order for a flatpak to appear in the menu,
    you need to execute the command
    sudo ln -f -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/*.desktop /usr/share/applications && sudo desktop-menu –write-out-global
    otherwise
    the flatpak is installed, it appears in the flatpak list command result,
    but it does not appear in the menu.
    (And you need to run the command every time you install a new flatpak!)

    I agree with Masinick, BobC, Robin, anticapitalX, above.
    Personally, in my everyday antiX system I install software only from software installer or synaptic.
    Luckily, the pre-installed stuff that antiX 23.2 full has is a real treasure.
    I only needed to add just a few more.

    • This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ninos.
    • This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by ninos.

    using only various GNU/Linux distros, GhostBSD and Haiku
    [perpetual antiX newbie]