Install Cockpit Flatpak Client on Fedora 40 KDE (NIghtly build 03/27/24)

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. 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.

boris@fedora:~$ neofetch
            .',;::::;,'.                boris@fedora  
        .';:cccccccccccc:;,.            ------------  
     .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;.         OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Forty Prerelease) x86_64  
   .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:.       Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-8.1)  
 .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;.     Kernel: 6.8.2-300.fc40.x86_64  
.:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:.    Uptime: 26 mins  
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc:ccccccc:.   Packages: 2213 (rpm), 5 (flatpak)  
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW::cccccccc,   Shell: bash 5.2.26  
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc:   Resolution: 1280x944  
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM0OOk.;cccccccccccc:   DE: Plasma 6.0.2  
cccccc:0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc;   WM: kwin  
ccccc:XM0';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc'   Icons: breeze [GTK2/3]  
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc;    Terminal: konsole  
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd:ccccccccccccccc;     CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8) @ 3.600GHz  
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0::cccccccccccccc:,      GPU: 00:01.0 Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 GPU  
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,.       Memory: 3260MiB / 15590MiB  
:cccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'.
.:cccccccccccccccccccccc:;,..                                     
 '::cccccccccccccc::;,.                                         

boris@fedora:~$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

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

Looking for matches…

Required runtime for org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/

45) 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     23.08           i      flathub    164.4 MB / 164.6 MB
2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default     23.08-extra     i      flathub     18.5 MB / 164.6 MB
3. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264       2.2.0           i      flathub    886.7 kB / 944.3 kB
4. [✓] org.gnome.Platform.Locale               45              i      flathub     18.1 kB / 369.6 MB
5. [✓] org.gnome.Platform                      45              i      flathub    316.4 MB / 378.2 MB
6. [✓] org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient       stable          i      flathub     10.7 MB / 11.4 MB

Installation complete.

Initializing a connection with a remote virtual machine (via two Linux bridges)
boris@fedora:~$ flatpak run  org.cockpit_project.CockpitClient

boris@fedora:~$ uname -a

Linux fedora 6.8.2-300.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Mar 27 00:16:08 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

boris@fedora:~$ rpm -qa | grep plasma | grep discover

plasma-discover-libs-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64

plasma-discover-flatpak-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64

plasma-discover-offline-updates-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64

plasma-discover-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64

plasma-discover-packagekit-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64

plasma-discover-notifier-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64