[FEATURE] Option to install Flatpak during installation

[kerbyyy]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It's not really a problem, but it would be nice to have an option to whether or not install Flatpak as well.

Describe the solution you'd like
During installation, the user can choose if they want to install Flatpak support or not.

[mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for your request. Which flatpack apps are you using and are importing for you? On Arch you can install nearly all apps as aur with yay or paru.

[kerbyyy]

Yes, it's true that most apps are already available in the AUR, but sometimes I use an app from the AUR just to discover they're buggy or even worse, outdated. Some of the common apps I use with Flatpak are Viber, and Modrinth (a Minecraft Launcher). I think having it as an option would be a nice little addition for us people who use some Flatpak from time to time.

[mylinuxforwork]

OK. Will add it to the installer.

[mylinuxforwork]

@kerbyyy Merged into main release. Please run the installer again.

[bknightInfo]

Hi @mylinuxforwork

As discussed on discord this is how I implemented my Flatpak solution

functions

_isInstalledFlatpak() {
    package="$1";
    check="$(flatpak list --columns="application" | grep "${package} ")";
    if [ -n "${check}" ] ; then
        echo 0; #'0' means 'true' in Bash
        return; #true
    fi;
    echo 1; #'1' means 'false' in Bash
    return; #false
}

_installPackagesFlatpak() {
     toInstall=();
    for pkg; do
        sudo flatpak install -y flathub "${pkg[@]}";
        if [[ $(_isInstalledFlatpak "${pkg}") == 0 ]]; then
            echo ":: ${pkg} is installed.";
            toInstall+=("${pkg}");
            continue;
        fi;
    done;

    sudo flatpak install -y flathub "${toInstall[@]}";
}

control script

echo -e "$CNT - Installing flatpaks, this may take a while..."
_installPackagesFlatpak "${packagesFlatpak[@]}";

not sure how this compares to your script

[mylinuxforwork]

Looks great. Let me check...

[mylinuxforwork]

@bknightInfo I just added the (optional) installation of flatpak to the installer.

sudo pacman -S flatpak

Your functions are flatpak installation utilities. I will add both to the library.sh for the installer and the scripts.sh for the hook and post installation scripts.

[mylinuxforwork]

@bknightInfo Added to https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/blob/main/.install/includes/library.sh and https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/blob/main/.install/includes/scripts.sh