How to Install and Uninstall flatpak-xdg-utils Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "flatpak-xdg-utils" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install flatpak-xdg-utils on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "flatpak-xdg-utils" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall flatpak-xdg-utils on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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3. Information about the flatpak-xdg-utils package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: flatpak-xdg-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.2-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 82
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.8)
Suggests: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, xdg-desktop-portal
Filename: pool/universe/f/flatpak-xdg-utils/flatpak-xdg-utils_1.0.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 16808
MD5sum: d5dc5ca229300185b5d6c96f21190473
SHA1: 7797af13a781d3b8d3930d51679dfd5ea424759a
SHA256: 4a8deb6100393241e92a063054b0e216e204185658cb089add6e253636e5d4f6
SHA512: 330bb5457bf1d299a8b2dd4d499268c3b8483f314640a322c717ca5dcb861293586b11b6cb2c84000612e1fbfa6048f34f2e9d8e862bcf50c6107ffb1d84cb98
Homepage: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils
Description-en: xdg-open and xdg-email reimplementation for containerized apps
Applications running in a Flatpak sandbox cannot normally launch arbitrary
subprocesses outside the container to open files and URLs. This
package provides reimplementations of the standard xdg-open(1) and
xdg-email(1) command-line tools intended to be run inside the container.
They use the D-Bus session bus to communicate with the xdg-desktop-portal
service outside the container.
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To avoid conflicting with the standard xdg-utils package, these tools
are installed in /usr/libexec/flatpak-xdg-utils. This directory can be
added to the PATH when preparing a container, or used as a target for
container-specific symbolic links in /usr/bin.
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This package also contains flatpak-spawn, which can be used by Flatpak
applications to launch processes outside the container. Unprivileged
applications can use this mechanism to launch a helper tool such as a
thumbnailer in a version of their sandbox with more restrictive
permissions, and specially-privileged applications with the 'devel' flag
(such as GNOME Builder) can use this mechanism to bypass the sandbox and
run commands on the host system.
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This package is normally only useful if you are using Debian packages to
construct a Flatpak runtime or a similar container, and should not be
installed on a normal Debian desktop system. On desktop systems please
install the reference implementation of the xdg-open and xdg-email tools,
which can be found in the xdg-utils package.
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If this package is installed in a non-Flatpak environment for testing,
it will require the dbus-session-bus and xdg-desktop-portal packages
(which would not be useful to install in a container).
Description-md5: f267f49a85c386a7c0188895e8b44f29