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As discussed in Chapter 3, “Installing and Maintaining Software in Ubuntu,” containers are software packaging systems that bundle all the files required to run an application into a single package. While this creates duplication of files, it helps eliminate the issue of conflicting library files and makes it easier to move application containers around between servers.

The flatpak application container format was created as an independent open source project with no direct ties to any specific Linux distribution. That said, battle lines have already been drawn, with Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora oriented toward using flatpak instead of Canonical's snap container format.

While CentOS desktop distributions install flatpak by default, the CentOS server environment doesn't. However, you can easily install flatpak as a package using the standard dnf or rpm methods.