flatpak-info(1) — Linux manual page

FLATPAK INFO(1)                flatpak info               FLATPAK INFO(1)

NAME         top

       flatpak-info - Show information about an installed application or
       runtime

SYNOPSIS         top

       flatpak info [OPTION...] NAME [BRANCH]

DESCRIPTION         top

       Show info about an installed application or runtime.

       By default, the output is formatted in a friendly format. If you
       specify any of the --show-...  or --file-access options, the
       output is instead formatted in a machine-readable format.

       By default, both per-user and system-wide installations are
       queried. Use the --user, --system or --installation options to
       change this.

OPTIONS         top

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
           Show help options and exit.

       -u, --user
           Query per-user installations.

       --system
           Query the default system-wide installation.

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

       --arch=ARCH
           Query for this architecture. See flatpak --supported-arches
           for architectures supported by the host.

       -r, --show-ref
           Show the installed ref.

       -o, --show-origin
           Show the remote the ref is installed from.

       -c, --show-commit
           Show the installed commit id.

       -s, --show-size
           Show the installed size.

       -m, --show-metadata
           Show the metadata.

       --show-runtime
           Show the runtime.

       --show-sdk
           Show the SDK.

       -M, --show-permissions
           Show the permissions.

       --file-access=PATH
           Show the level of access to the given path.

       -e, --show-extensions
           Show the matching extensions.

       -l, --show-location
           Show the on-disk location of the app or runtime. See the
           examples below.

       -v, --verbose
           Print debug information during command processing.

       --ostree-verbose
           Print OSTree debug information during command processing.

EXAMPLES         top

       $ flatpak info org.gnome.Builder//master

       $ tree `flatpak info -l org.gnome.Builder//master`/files

SEE ALSO         top

       flatpak(1), flatpak-install(1), flatpak-update(1)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the flatpak (a tool for building and
       distributing desktop applications on Linux) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at ⟨http://flatpak.org/⟩.  It is
       not known how to report bugs for this man page; if you know,
       please send a mail to man-pages@man7.org.  This page was obtained
       from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
       time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2025-08-06.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
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       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

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