Try to install a flatpak in kde

stephanh · July 4, 2020, 5:28pm

I’m trying to install a flatpak from flathub. Discovery is telling flatpak-backend needs to be installed. This is installed but won’t start. It is also not possible to remove it so that i can reinstall it. I hope that someone can tell me what I’m doing wrong.

dalto · July 4, 2020, 5:32pm

Make sure that flatpak is installed.
Ensure you have at least one remote enabled with the command flatpak remotes
Check the settings for discover to ensure that flatpak and the appropriate sources are enabled

stephanh · July 4, 2020, 5:40pm

It could not find plasma-discover-flatpak.

dalto · July 4, 2020, 5:46pm

Oops, wrong forum, let me try that again.

EDIT: fixed it. Sorry about that, must be tired today

stephanh · July 4, 2020, 5:47pm

Just installed flatpak with: sudo pacman -S flatpak and now it will install flatpak’s.

stephanh · July 4, 2020, 6:06pm

No problem, thank you for you’re reply.

stephanh · July 4, 2020, 6:08pm

Will the discover app also update the flatpaks or do I have to update that with the flatpak update command?

dalto · July 4, 2020, 6:49pm

It will update them as well.

Pudge · July 4, 2020, 7:37pm

@stephanh
If you want to update manually:
flatpak update

Here is a flatpak cheat sheet that might come in handy.

Pudge

stephanh · July 4, 2020, 8:02pm

Thanks, that’s very helpfull.