1FLATPAK CREATE-USB(1) flatpak create-usb FLATPAK CREATE-USB(1)
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6 flatpak-create-usb - Copy apps and/or runtimes onto removable media.
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9 flatpak create-usb [OPTION...] MOUNT-PATH REF...
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12 Copies the specified apps and/or runtimes REFs onto the removable media
13 mounted at MOUNT-PATH, along with all the dependencies and metadata
14 needed for installing them. This is one way of transferring flatpaks
15 between computers that doesn't require an Internet connection. After
16 using this comand, the USB drive can be connected to another computer
17 and flatpak install will prefer to install from it rather than the
18 Internet if the refs are the newest available. For this process to work
19 a collection ID must be configured on the relevant remotes on both the
20 source and destination computers, and on the remote server.
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22 Each REF argument is a full or partial indentifier in the flatpak ref
23 format, which looks like "(app|runtime)/ID/ARCH/BRANCH". All elements
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37 By default flatpak create-usb uses .ostree/repo as the destination
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55 Copy refs from the per-user installation.
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72 Create the repository in DEST under MOUNT-PATH, rather than the
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87 flatpak(1), flatpak-install(1), flatpak-list(1), ostree-create-usb(1)
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