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Refactoring default installed packages…
Should flatpak be installed by default on Whonix-Gateway? Usefulness? Some future hypothetical situation where flatpak might be useful to get a newer Tor version?
flatpak has quite some more dependencies than extrepo.
sudo apt install flatpak
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
fuse gnome-desktop3-data libappstream-glib8 libavahi-glib1 libgnome-desktop-3-19 libmalcontent-0-0 libostree-1-1 libpipewire-0.3-0 libpipewire-0.3-modules libspa-0.2-modules libstemmer0d
libxkbregistry0 p11-kit p11-kit-modules pipewire pipewire-bin xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
Suggested packages:
avahi-daemon malcontent-gui accountsservice evince
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flatpak fuse gnome-desktop3-data libappstream-glib8 libavahi-glib1 libgnome-desktop-3-19 libmalcontent-0-0 libostree-1-1 libpipewire-0.3-0 libpipewire-0.3-modules libspa-0.2-modules
libstemmer0d libxkbregistry0 p11-kit p11-kit-modules pipewire pipewire-bin xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,438 kB/4,721 kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
sudo apt install –no-install-recommends flatpak
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libappstream-glib8 libavahi-glib1 libmalcontent-0-0 libostree-1-1 libstemmer0d
Suggested packages:
avahi-daemon malcontent-gui
Recommended packages:
p11-kit xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk | xdg-desktop-portal-backend
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flatpak libappstream-glib8 libavahi-glib1 libmalcontent-0-0 libostree-1-1 libstemmer0d
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 642 kB/1,925 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,062 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
I didn’t check yet which of the Recommends: would be actually be useful but useful for me without already.