Hi! I would like to make a request about anki adopting flatpak/flathub as the official or one of the official distributions methods on linux. From the user point of view, getting it from flathub is way more comfortable. Assuming they are using a distro that comes with flatpak support and flathub co…

Maybe at one point, but I’m afraid it’s not at the top of my priority list at the moment.

Also, just to be clear: there are no significant advantages for a developer to package their software themselves. It’s an operation that is fairly complex on its own, and it’s better left to people who know what they’re doing (ie. packagers). Currently, there is a bit of a technical difficulty from …

Just my unsolicited two cents, but I am firmly against this. See flatpak is not the future .

To be completely honest, I’m not a huge fan of flatpak either, but, you know, if some people use it, they may have their reasons. However, if Anki starts officially packaging itself for some linux distribution, I think it should start with packaging for Debian, as I think debian packages are the one…

I support this. Many apps including mkvtoolnix and handbrake work flawlessly via flatpaks. Handbrake even recommends this method to get proper hw encoding. It circumvents dependency hell among variety of distros. Since they are platform agnostic. They would mostly work fine regardless of distro …

I echo the sentiments of the other users, official flatpak build would be nice. The third party one is usually behind in updates, e.g. a security update from last year (sept 2025) was only available through flathub this month (june 2026).

It might be easy to support Flatpak with the new packaging tool: Consider enabling Briefcase's support for Flatpak/AppImage opened 04:42PM - 13 May 26 UTC (UTC) [image] abdnh …

Would the current package for linux still be available though? I’m deliberatly not using flatpak as it is causing unneccessary issues, e.g. Huge downloads on every update. Easily 700 MB dependencies (without the app even being considered). Running through flatpak is slower compaired to native bin…

[image] Anon_0000: Would the current package for linux still be available though? No plan to drop that. [image] Anon_0000: I really like to have either a .deb The packaging tool supports that, but I decided against it for now so we don’t have to provide multiple packages for each Debi…

I don’t use flatpack so please don’t make it the official way of getting Anki in Linux. Thank you.

[Request] Adopt flatpak as the official distribution method

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[Request] Adopt flatpak as the official distribution method

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