Install Zoom flatpak in Debian-like systems — Ansible module flatpak

How to automate the installation of Zoom flatpak system-wide in Debian-like systems using Ansible module flatpak.

Luca Berton
5 min readMar 2, 2022

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How to install Zoom flatpack in Debian-like systems with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible install Spotify flatpack in Debian-like systems

  • community.general.flatpak
  • Manage flatpaks

Today we are going to talk about the Ansible module `flatpak`.

The full name is `community.general.flatpak`, it’s part of `community.general` modules maintained by the Ansible Community.

The purpose of the `flatpak` module is to Manage flatpaks in the target system.

Parameters

  • name string — flatpak name
  • state string — present/absent
  • method string — system/user
  • remote string — flathub

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Luca Berton

I help creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things everyday