Is it possible to install Phosh's software store on KDE? (lemmy.world)

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Hey everyone! I recently decided to try mobile linux on an old Pocophone F1 I had lying around and installed Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket OS with KDE and Phosh on it (in that order).

I couldn't help but notice that while UT and Phosh had their own app stores (openstore and gnome software respectively), the KDE mobile's Discover had very little in it.

So my question is - is it possible to install either the UT's openstore or Phosh's software store on a KDE install of Postmarket?

I feel like this segmentation of app stores is really hurting the mobile linux ecosystem, since we have very few apps anyway. If we want more developers to make native apps for this platform, we should have some kind of standard packaging format that works on all mobile linux platforms (the same problem exists on desktop linux to a degree btw). Is there a solution for this conundrum?

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[-] 1peter10@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

In theory, you should just see the same apps in Discover and in GNOME Software, assuming they both can access/install native Alpine and flathub apps. (And I recall they did at some point in time, but breakage unfortunately happens, and I mostly use the terminal to install and remove things...)

With Ubuntu Touch apps it's different, the Open Store is its own thing. I want to look into whether adapting this to postmarketOS when I can find the time.

Regarding few apps: Yes, it could be more, yes, there are gaps, but we're doing somewhat okay: https://linuxphoneapps.org/

this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025

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