How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution’s repositories?

  • oldfart@lemm.ee
    7·
    2 months ago

    Ran out of space on a 30GB partition when trying around 10 smallish programs as flatpaks. Runtimes are shared in theory but not in practice.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      If you allocate 30 GB for / that seems pretty low these days for a desktop system. If you don’t have much space, it’s always best to go with regular repository packages

      Here someone had 163 flatpaks and it used 8,7GB in runtimes. So I’m guessing the 30GB number is for whole of /.

      I just checked out mine, I have 34 apps and runtimes use 3,1GB

      Runtimes are shared in theory but not in practice.

      I think three runtimes (newest freedesktop, KDE and GNOME) cover 90% of my flatpaks. Then there’s programs that use some EOL’d runtime and never get updated, which sucks