How to Install and Uninstall flatpak-xdg-utils Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "flatpak-xdg-utils" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install flatpak-xdg-utils on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall flatpak-xdg-utils on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the flatpak-xdg-utils package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: flatpak-xdg-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.4-1
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 (>= 2.32), 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_1.0.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 17108
MD5sum: f5f63bb7bbe9ee8cee2b1dfd7a2395fb
SHA1: 1837c8f604b92f44ff01ee8398281d87dbcd43db
SHA256: 083d40e01dfd7ac1d9c447b0ae1ccb0c72d8fefbc1c4475bbe19489823dcf154
SHA512: a0b96d27f9266b2bd5baec9ccc61a2a0140b4ba994d23d834b64806542954aef29f57897f05d9d62ba64cec01e8beae093945981681c8bf37f9b2c7ddcf03b80
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