How do I install apps not listed in the Web Store?

For example: LibreWolf.
10 Replies
Zephyr
Zephyr3y ago
Install it in a container, for example by following instructions here: https://librewolf.net/installation/
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
Asterisk
Asterisk3y ago
The web store is for sites Not apps
Jase3984387
Jase3984387OP3y ago
I went to LibreWolf's website, and decide to install the FlatPak. That worked. However, it wasn't installed into a container.
Asterisk
Asterisk3y ago
Yeah flatpak is different Jeez learn more about the OS before using it learn all the tools did you read the welcome screen
Zephyr
Zephyr3y ago
Woops, didn't realize it had a flatpak (they should put that on their installation page)
Jase3984387
Jase3984387OP3y ago
It is confusing how to install Linux apps on BlendOS. I also tried # yay -S librewolf-bin
Zephyr
Zephyr3y ago
Yea thats a fair critique, Jase, librewolf is in the aur not official arch repositories. You can only install packages from the official arch repos to the blendOS host at the moment, (using sudo system install package_name), but I think aur support is being worked on. Yay and Pacman don't work in the blendOS host, but you can use them in an arch container
Asterisk
Asterisk3y ago
That won’t work Pacman does via system install And yeah you’re supposed to use a container
Zephyr
Zephyr3y ago
This is a misleading statement to make; users can't use pacman directly so better to tell them it doesn't work (if they take the time to cat /usr/bin/system and trace it back to using pacman, that's fine)
Asterisk
Asterisk3y ago
Well the tool pulls from the same repos

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