Flatpak Support

**vpeter** · June 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM

Quote from chewitt

Flatpack is an abomination on numerous levels. Definitely won't be happening.

And here it is

**Da Flex** · June 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM

Never say never. It's now available on nightly builds.

MatteN · June 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM

And its working pretty good.

**kurai** · June 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM

Yup - saves me when I have intermittent problems with plugin.video.youtube

I can hop over to Flatpak'ed VacuumTube, then back to Kodi without having to mess around with the 'official' Youtube apps on Amazon Firestick (Oh... my ... god ... the UI's advert spam is so obnoxious) or the TV (Oh ... my ... god ... the UI is *painfully* slow. Oh - also obnoxious advert spam)

MatteN · June 7, 2026 at 6:05 PM

Quote from kurai

Yup - saves me when I have intermittent problems with plugin.video.youtube
I can hop over to Flatpak'ed VacuumTube, then back to Kodi without having to mess around with the 'official' Youtube apps on Amazon Firestick (Oh... my ... god ... the UI's advert spam is so obnoxious) or the TV (Oh ... my ... god ... the UI is *painfully* slow. Oh - also obnoxious advert spam)

Yeah, VacuumTube is awesome, both on Pi4/5 & with Generic on Intel boards.

**HiassofT** · June 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM

Quote from vpeter

And here it is

Sorry, I wasn't aware of this thread when I implemented flatpak support

so long,

Hias

**chewitt** · June 8, 2026 at 5:48 AM

Quote from vpeter

And here it is

I'm still not a huge fan of flatpak, but it seems to work and others are keen to own all the maintenance. In the mid-term it clears the path to exorcising Xorg from the codebase which is a bigger win. Ho hum