# \[Suggestion\] A Flatpak Support

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/suggestion-a-flatpak-support/13647>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 9, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/suggestion-a-flatpak-support/13647 "2026-04-09T15:04:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![anonymous7356482](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/anonymous7356482/32/3550_2.png) [@anonymous7356482](https://bisq.community/u/anonymous7356482)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/suggestion-a-flatpak-support/13647/1 "2026-04-09T15:04:10Z")

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Hi Bisq team,

First of all, thank you for building such an important tool for decentralized Bitcoin trading. I wanted to suggest a feature that would greatly improve accessibility for a growing segment of Linux users: **native Flatpak support**.

I’m currently running **Bazzite** , an immutable Linux distribution based on Fedora Atomic. By design, immutable distros like Bazzite, Silverblue, and uBlue variants do not allow traditional RPM/DEB package installation on the host system. The entire OS layer is read-only, and the recommended (and often only practical) way to install desktop applications is through **Flatpak**.

Right now, installing Bisq on Bazzite requires workarounds such as using `rpm-ostree` to layer packages (which defeats the purpose of an immutable system and can break updates) or running it inside a Distrobox container — neither of which is a great experience for end users.

Publishing Bisq on **Flathub** or providing an official Flatpak manifest would:

- Make installation seamless on Bazzite, Silverblue, Kinoite, and any other immutable distro
- Improve sandboxing and security by default
- Reach a wider and fast-growing audience of Linux users adopting immutable desktops
- Simplify updates through Flatpak’s built-in update mechanism

Immutable Linux distros are gaining significant traction, and Flatpak is the standard distribution method for desktop apps in that ecosystem. Having Bisq available as a Flatpak would be a meaningful step toward making decentralized trading accessible to everyone on Linux.

Thanks for considering this suggestion!

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**Author:** ![suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/suddenwhipvapor/32/3291_2.png) [@suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/u/suddenwhipvapor)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/suggestion-a-flatpak-support/13647/2 "2026-04-09T20:01:11Z")

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hi, interesting request

bisq1 is currently only receiving maintenance support as the dev team is working on completing the musig trade protocol for bisq2, so I am fairly sure they won’t be dedicating resources to release alternative distributions for bisq1, but I guess you can build it from source? the file build.md in the /docs/ folder of the github repo tells you how to do that

for bisq2, it may be an interesting idea to evaluate releasing also appimage and flatpak, I guess the devs will have to reach an agreement on that after the actual application is production ready