Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

When you install a package using Flatpak, it ends up in one of two places:

• System packages end up in /var/lib/flatpak.
• User packages end up in ~/.local/share/flatpak/.

Looking into these locations, we can find an app directory, and within that, our package:

$ pwd/home/vagrant/.local/share/flatpak/app$ lsorg.vim.Vim

Within this directory, there are yet more layers, which house the current version of your package and the various binary files.

Packages are built atop runtimes, like those that you saw when you listed installed packages earlier. These runtimes are distribution agnostic, meaning that they can be installed on all of the Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora systems of the world.

If there is something additional required for ...