The following options are understood:
-h, --help
Show help options and exit.
-u, --user
Update a per-user installation.
--system
Update the default system-wide installation.
--installation=NAME
Updates a system-wide installation specified by NAME among those defined in
/etc/flatpak/installations.d/. Using --installation=default is equivalent to using --system.
--share=SUBSYSTEM
Share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides the Context section from the application
metadata. SUBSYSTEM must be one of: network, ipc. This option can be used multiple times.
--unshare=SUBSYSTEM
Don't share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides the Context section from the
application metadata. SUBSYSTEM must be one of: network, ipc. This option can be used multiple
times.
--socket=SOCKET
Expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to the Context section from the
application metadata. SOCKET must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus,
session-bus, ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent, inherit-wayland-socket. This option can be used
multiple times.
--nosocket=SOCKET
Don't expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to the Context section from the
application metadata. SOCKET must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus,
session-bus, ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent, inherit-wayland-socket. This option can be used
multiple times.
--device=DEVICE
Expose a device to the application. This overrides to the Context section from the application
metadata. DEVICE must be one of: dri, input, usb, kvm, shm, all. This option can be used multiple
times.
--nodevice=DEVICE
Don't expose a device to the application. This overrides to the Context section from the application
metadata. DEVICE must be one of: dri, input, usb, kvm, shm, all. This option can be used multiple
times.
--allow=FEATURE
Allow access to a specific feature. This updates the [Context] group in the metadata. FEATURE must
be one of: devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus, per-app-dev-shm. This option can be used multiple
times.
See flatpak-build-finish(1) for the meaning of the various features.
--disallow=FEATURE
Disallow access to a specific feature. This updates the [Context] group in the metadata. FEATURE
must be one of: devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus, per-app-dev-shm. This option can be used
multiple times.
--filesystem=FILESYSTEM
Allow the application access to a subset of the filesystem. This overrides to the Context section
from the application metadata. FILESYSTEM can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop,
xdg-documents, xdg-download, xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates, xdg-videos,
xdg-run, xdg-config, xdg-cache, xdg-data, an absolute path, or a homedir-relative path like ~/dir or
paths relative to the xdg dirs, like xdg-download/subdir. The optional :ro suffix indicates that the
location will be read-only. The optional :create suffix indicates that the location will be
read-write and created if it doesn't exist. This option can be used multiple times. See the
"[Context] filesystems" list in flatpak-metadata(5) for details of the meanings of these filesystems.
--nofilesystem=FILESYSTEM
Undo the effect of a previous --filesystem=FILESYSTEM in the app's manifest or a lower-precedence
layer of overrides, and/or remove a previous --filesystem=FILESYSTEM from this layer of overrides.
This overrides the Context section of the application metadata. FILESYSTEM can take the same values
as for --filesystem, but the :ro and :create suffixes are not used here. This option can be used
multiple times.
This option does not prevent access to a more narrowly-scoped --filesystem. For example, if an
application has the equivalent of --filesystem=xdg-config/MyApp in its manifest or as a system-wide
override, and flatpak override --user --nofilesystem=home as a per-user override, then it will be
prevented from accessing most of the home directory, but it will still be allowed to access
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/MyApp.
As a special case, --nofilesystem=host:reset will ignore all --filesystem permissions inherited from
the app manifest or a lower-precedence layer of overrides, in addition to having the behaviour of
--nofilesystem=host.
--add-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE
Add generic policy option. For example, "--add-policy=subsystem.key=v1 --add-policy=subsystem.key=v2"
would map to this metadata:
[Policy subsystem]
key=v1;v2;
This option can be used multiple times.
--remove-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE
Remove generic policy option. This option can be used multiple times.
--env=VAR=VALUE
Set an environment variable in the application. This overrides to the Context section from the
application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--unset-env=VAR
Unset an environment variable in the application. This overrides the unset-environment entry in the
[Context] group of the metadata, and the [Environment] group. This option can be used multiple times.
--env-fd=FD
Read environment variables from the file descriptor FD, and set them as if via --env. This can be
used to avoid environment variables and their values becoming visible to other users.
Each environment variable is in the form VAR=VALUE followed by a zero byte. This is the same format
used by env -0 and /proc/*/environ.
--own-name=NAME
Allow the application to own the well-known name NAME on the session bus. This overrides to the
Context section from the application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--talk-name=NAME
Allow the application to talk to the well-known name NAME on the session bus. This overrides to the
Context section from the application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--no-talk-name=NAME
Don't allow the application to talk to the well-known name NAME on the session bus. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--system-own-name=NAME
Allow the application to own the well known name NAME on the system bus. If NAME ends with .*, it
allows the application to own all matching names. This overrides to the Context section from the
application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--system-talk-name=NAME
Allow the application to talk to the well known name NAME on the system bus. If NAME ends with .*, it
allows the application to talk to all matching names. This overrides to the Context section from the
application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--system-no-talk-name=NAME
Don't allow the application to talk to the well known name NAME on the system bus. If NAME ends with
.*, it allows the application to talk to all matching names. This overrides to the Context section
from the application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.
--persist=FILENAME
If the application doesn't have access to the real homedir, make the (homedir-relative) path FILENAME
a bind mount to the corresponding path in the per-application directory, allowing that location to be
used for persistent data. This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata. This
option can be used multiple times.
--reset
Remove overrides. If an APP is given, remove the overrides for that application, otherwise remove the
global overrides.
--show
Shows overrides. If an APP is given, shows the overrides for that application, otherwise shows the
global overrides.
-v, --verbose
Print debug information during command processing.
--ostree-verbose
Print OSTree debug information during command processing.