Manpages - flatpak-search.1

flatpak-search - Search for applications and runtimes

flatpak search TEXT

Searches for applications and runtimes matching TEXT. Note that this uses appstream data that can be updated with the flatpak update command. The appstream data is updated automatically only if its at least a day old.

The following options are understood:

-u, –user

Only search through remotes in the per-user installation.

–system

Only search through remotes in the default system-wide installation.

–installation=NAME

Show a system-wide installation by NAME among those defined in etc/flatpak/installations.d. Using –installation=default is equivalent to using –system.

-h, –help

Show help options and exit.

-v, –verbose

Print debug information during command processing.

–ostree-verbose

Print OSTree debug information during command processing.

–columns=FIELD,…

Specify what information to show about each result. You can list multiple fields, or use this option multiple times.

Append :s[tart], :m[iddle], :e[nd] or :f[ull] to column names to change ellipsization.

The following fields are understood by the –columns option:

name

Show the name

description

Show the description

application

Show the application ID

version

Show the version

branch

Show the branch

remotes

Show the remotes

all

Show all columns

help

Show the list of available columns

Note that field names can be abbreviated to a unique prefix.

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