Greetings everyone. I use mx linux based on debian stable, I wanted to install the latest versions (46) of the gnome-system-monitor and gnome-software packages, both are in the repositories, but there are only old versions (43), so I went to flathub and started looking for them there, but these applications are not available on flathub, I went to gitlab, but there are no releases there at all, and at the same time there are no compiled packages for each version. And so I ended up here, maybe I was looking badly, but why aren’t these two packages on flathub and there aren’t compiled versions for each release on gitlab? Or are they stored somewhere else? Where can I get them then in my situation, just build them?
P.s: I hope I chose the right section and tags, if not, please correct me
I can’t speak for gnome-system-monitor, but gnome-software requires close integration into the system (to manage packages) so cannot be sandboxed, hence it is not available as a flatpak.
I advise you continue to use the version of gnome-software shipped with, and tested for, your distribution. Running a much more recent version of gnome-software than has been tested with Debian Stable could potentially break things.
No. Some applications are not really “applications”: they are system components, and are expected to act with certain privileges. If you widen/loosen the sandboxing element of Flatpak in order to make them work you’re essentially trading off the security model.