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Software App for Ubuntu made with Flutter 🧡 💙

Ubuntu Software

An alternative software store for the Ubuntu Desktop made with Flutter.

Test Ubuntu Software in the preview/edge channel of the snap-store snap

Goals

• Great UX
• Fast
• Adaptive Layout
• Snap support (https://github.com/canonical/snapd.dart)
  • install
  • search
  • remove
  • filter for sections
  • refresh
  • switch channels
    • list permissions
• deb/rpm (packagekit) support (https://github.com/canonical/packagekit.dart)
  • install from file-explorer
  • list installed debs/rpms
  • remove
  • update all debs/rpms on the system via the updates tab
  • search and install for debs/rpms

Firmware updater

For the firmware updates the flutter linux desktop, yaru-designed application firmware-updater is recommended

Build

Install flutter

Either with

sudo snap install flutter --classic

Or with

sudo apt install git curl cmake meson make clang libgtk-3-dev pkg-config
mkdir -p ~/development
cd ~/development
git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/development/flutter/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

OR a one-liner top copy & paste - CAUTION: it won't stop after you entered your password :)

sudo apt -y install git curl cmake meson make clang libgtk-3-dev pkg-config && mkdir -p ~/development && cd ~/development && git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable && echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/development/flutter/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

run

flutter run

or press the run icon in vscode.

Contributing

See our contributor guidelines.

License

This application is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.