Install Cockpit Flatpak Client on F39 WKS (NIghtly build 09/12/23)

CONNECT VIA SSH TO SERVERS WITH COCKPIT

Cockpit Client provides a graphical interface to your servers, containers, and virtual machines. Connections are made over SSH, using the SSH configuration of the local user (including aliases, known hosts, key files, hardware tokens, etc).

The server needs to have Cockpit installed, but the Cockpit webserver doesn't need to be enabled, and no extra ports need to be opened.

Per https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-294.html

The primary process in a Cockpit Linux session is called cockpit-bridge. It translates operating system interfaces to a JSON stream protocol, which is used by Cockpit browser pages. Recently, cockpit-bridge has been rewritten in Python. The rewrite is now complete enough to start rolling it out. 

Proceed as follows :

Last login: Wed Sep 13 18:00:09 2023

[boris@fedora ~]$ uname -a

Linux fedora 6.5.2-301.fc39.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Sep 11 18:12:33 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[boris@fedora ~]$ sudo flatpak install flathub  org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient

[sudo] password for boris: 

Looking for matches…

Required runtime for org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/43) found in remote flathub

Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: Y

org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient permissions:

    ipc      fallback-x11        wayland     x11

    dri      dbus access [1]

    [1] org.freedesktop.Flatpak

        ID                                  Branch      Op Remote  Download

 1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 22.08       i  flathub 142.8 MB / 143.1 MB

 2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 22.08-extra i  flathub  16.3 MB / 143.1 MB

 3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264   2.2.0       i  flathub 886.8 kB / 944.3 kB

 4. [✓] org.gnome.Platform.Locale           43          i  flathub  17.8 kB / 340.6 MB

 5. [✓] org.gnome.Platform                  43          i  flathub 280.4 MB / 329.3 MB

 6. [✓] org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient   stable      i  flathub  19.8 MB / 10.8 MB

Installation complete.

boris@fedora:~$ flatpak list

Name                                    Application ID                       Version  Branch       Installation

Cockpit Client                          org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient    300      stable       system

Mesa                                    org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default  23.1.6   22.08        system

Mesa (Extra)                            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default  23.1.6   22.08-extra  system

openh264                                org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264    2.1.0    2.2.0        system

GNOME Application Platform version 43   org.gnome.Platform                            43           system