Flatpak & Flathub

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With Kiwix Desktop 2.0, we propose a Flatpak file to download. To install it here is the procedure:

# Install Flatpak (on Debian/Ubuntu)
$ sudo apt-get install flatpak

# Install Flathub (for the dependencies)
$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

# Download the Kiwix Desktop Flatpak
$ wget https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/org.kiwix.desktop.2.0-beta2.flatpak

# Install Kiwix Desktop
$ flatpak install org.kiwix.desktop.2.0-beta2.flatpak

# Run Kiwix Desktop (but Kiwix should be available through your app launcher anyway)
$ flatpak run org.kiwix.desktop