I don’t understand what problem they are meant to solve. If you have a FOSS piece of software, you can install it via the package manager. Or the store, which is just a frontend for the package manager. I see that they are distribution-independent, but the distro maintainers likely already know what’s compatible and what your system needs to install the software. You enjoy that benefit only through the package manager.

If your distro ships broken software because of dependency problems, you don’t need a tool like Flatpak, you need a new distro.

  •  flatbield   ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) 
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    Ahhh those were the days:

    tar -xzf PACKAGE.tar.gz

    cd PACKAGE

    ./configure

    make

    su

    make install

    Not sure many people do that any more. I rather prefer:

    sudo apt-get install PACKAGE

    Or just pick it from synaptic. If you didn’t have to do manual integration, plopping down an AppImage has some attractions too.