FLATPAK-MAKE-CURRENT(1)

💖 FLATPAK-MAKE-CURRENT — the flatpak manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about the flatpak make-current command from the flatpak manual and it's literally so much simpler than it sounds 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

flatpak-make-current — make a specific version of an app current 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

flatpak make-current [OPTION...] APP BRANCH

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕ — this command makes a particular branch of an application the current one. And why do we care? Because only the current branch of an app gets its exported files made visible to the host — think desktop files, icons, all that cute stuff your system actually shows you. Everything else is just sitting there, invisible, doing nothing. not very main character of them 💅

ngl though, when a new branch gets installed it automatically becomes current anyway, so this command is often just... not needed?? like the app already ate and you didn't even have to ask 🍓

One thing you gotta know: unless you override it with the --user or --installation options, this command changes the default system-wide installation. so if you were expecting it to be all chill and local — no ma'am, it's system-wide by default 🙈

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

here's everything you can pass, and yes, we're doing all of them, no skipping, periodt:

• -h, --help — shows you the help options and then dips out. bye 👋
• -u, --user — updates a per-user installation instead. your own little corner of the world 🎀
• --system — updates the default system-wide installation. the big one. the whole vibe 🌈
• --installation=NAME — updates a system-wide installation specified by NAME, picked from the ones defined in /etc/flatpak/installations.d/. and fyi, using --installation=default is exactly equivalent to using --system. same energy, different font ✨
• --arch=ARCH — the architecture you wanna make current. wanna know which ones your host supports? run flatpak --supported-arches and it'll spill 🧚
• -v, --verbose — prints debug info while the command is processing. for the girlies who need to know everything 🔍
• --ostree-verbose — prints OSTree debug information during command processing. even more debug. deeper lore 📚

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

look at her go:

$ flatpak --user make-current org.gnome.gedit 3.14

iconic. no notes. 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these next, bestie, they're all in the family:

• flatpak(1)
• flatpak-install(1)
• flatpak-list(1)

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lowkey reminder: the default here is the system-wide installation, so if you don't want to touch that, pass --user or --installation. don't be out here changing things you didn't mean to change 😭

and that's the whole page!! this one came from the flatpak manual, and the date on it? literally blank — mysterious, elusive, giving absolutely nothing 💀 stay hydrated, use your --help, and slay 💖✨👑