Migrating from Packman to Flatpak

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I have dozens of packages from the Packman repo. How do I systematically migrate these to Flatpak? The only documentation I find is for one package at a time.

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Here’s what I did ~4 years ago:

  • Create a list of Packages from the Packman repo.
  • Remove the packman repo
  • Do sudo zypper dup --allow-vendor-change
  • Use Discover / Gnome Software to find the apps that came from Packman, mostly VLC, Kdenlive, Handbrake etc
  • Uninstall the rpm packages, install the flatpak versions.
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Thanks. Sounds like I’ll still have to do it manually, one-by-one.

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It is a bit of work indeed, but not too much.
May I please suggest you download and run this script: https://github.com/knurpht/flatpak_system_to_user.sh/blob/main/flatpak_system_to_user.sh ? The script will make flatpaks being installed as your user in your homedirectory, That keeps them isolated from the running system even more.