I have a couple of flatpaks installed that are no longer available on flathub, and i want to make sure to back them up so that i can run them later if i install a fresh distro for example.
Is it as simple as copying the application folder from ~/.local/share/flatpak and adding it there later? Does that include dependencies as well?
Yes,
~/.local/share/flatpakincludes all user installed flatpaks, while/var/lib/flatpakincludes all system wide installed flatpaks. Both include repository information and required runtimes (i.e. dependencies).This does not include user data, which is stored in
~/.var/app.Make sure to test your backup just in case on another system/VM.
Can someone explain why global flatpaks are installed in
/var/liband not/optor/usr/local?What about app data? If I only want to backup my app data for all flatpak application but not the application itself, where can I find the directory?
Based on the above comment, I think you are looking for
~/.var/app.Bruh, I am pretty sure when I commented the question, this information wasn’t there.
Perfect, thank you!!!