How to make org.kde.discover (Plasma Discover installed as FlatPak) to work with APT, Snap and FlatPak of the...












3















I have installed FlatPak to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system with the following commands:



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo


and then installed Plasma Discover with



flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.discover


I can run it with



flatpak run org.kde.discover


or from Applications→System→(Nightly) Discover, but it does not show any installed applications



Plasma Discover - Installed



Settings tab is empty too:



Plasma Discover - Settings



What am I doing wrong?

How to make org.kde.discover (Plasma Discover installed as FlatPak) to work with APT, Snap and FlatPak of the system?





Some background: I want to stay on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and have GUI for FlatPak and Snap. This question was the first step.



Notes: I have tested this method on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Plasma Discover has the same behavior on it.










share|improve this question

























  • From much of what I've read, Plasma Discover, even in Kubuntu Bionic and Cosmic, is a bit dicey. So it is the focus of heavy development. Also, I'm guessing that Plasma Discover, the version using 5.13, is somewhat out of place on Ubuntu Xenial which will have older versions of APT, Snap, etc. I doubt whether Discover is backwards-compatible. Users of Cosmic just got updated to 5.13 a day before feature freeze. I can't help in any way, but would like to know why you're trying this on Xenial instead of in Cosmic?

    – DK Bose
    Aug 24 '18 at 2:32








  • 1





    This question is logic continuation of my other question - I want to have GUI for FlatPak and Snap on 16.04 LTS. Thank you for comment, @DKBose , anyway!

    – N0rbert
    Aug 24 '18 at 8:59











  • IIRC, flatpaks are sandboxed. Installing discover as flatpak doesn't really make sense to me unless there is a way to un-sandbox it. As a side note: if it were possible, what would happen if you uninstall flatpak from discover running as a flatpak?

    – danzel
    Jan 4 at 15:08
















3















I have installed FlatPak to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system with the following commands:



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo


and then installed Plasma Discover with



flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.discover


I can run it with



flatpak run org.kde.discover


or from Applications→System→(Nightly) Discover, but it does not show any installed applications



Plasma Discover - Installed



Settings tab is empty too:



Plasma Discover - Settings



What am I doing wrong?

How to make org.kde.discover (Plasma Discover installed as FlatPak) to work with APT, Snap and FlatPak of the system?





Some background: I want to stay on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and have GUI for FlatPak and Snap. This question was the first step.



Notes: I have tested this method on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Plasma Discover has the same behavior on it.










share|improve this question

























  • From much of what I've read, Plasma Discover, even in Kubuntu Bionic and Cosmic, is a bit dicey. So it is the focus of heavy development. Also, I'm guessing that Plasma Discover, the version using 5.13, is somewhat out of place on Ubuntu Xenial which will have older versions of APT, Snap, etc. I doubt whether Discover is backwards-compatible. Users of Cosmic just got updated to 5.13 a day before feature freeze. I can't help in any way, but would like to know why you're trying this on Xenial instead of in Cosmic?

    – DK Bose
    Aug 24 '18 at 2:32








  • 1





    This question is logic continuation of my other question - I want to have GUI for FlatPak and Snap on 16.04 LTS. Thank you for comment, @DKBose , anyway!

    – N0rbert
    Aug 24 '18 at 8:59











  • IIRC, flatpaks are sandboxed. Installing discover as flatpak doesn't really make sense to me unless there is a way to un-sandbox it. As a side note: if it were possible, what would happen if you uninstall flatpak from discover running as a flatpak?

    – danzel
    Jan 4 at 15:08














3












3








3


2






I have installed FlatPak to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system with the following commands:



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo


and then installed Plasma Discover with



flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.discover


I can run it with



flatpak run org.kde.discover


or from Applications→System→(Nightly) Discover, but it does not show any installed applications



Plasma Discover - Installed



Settings tab is empty too:



Plasma Discover - Settings



What am I doing wrong?

How to make org.kde.discover (Plasma Discover installed as FlatPak) to work with APT, Snap and FlatPak of the system?





Some background: I want to stay on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and have GUI for FlatPak and Snap. This question was the first step.



Notes: I have tested this method on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Plasma Discover has the same behavior on it.










share|improve this question
















I have installed FlatPak to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system with the following commands:



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo


and then installed Plasma Discover with



flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.discover


I can run it with



flatpak run org.kde.discover


or from Applications→System→(Nightly) Discover, but it does not show any installed applications



Plasma Discover - Installed



Settings tab is empty too:



Plasma Discover - Settings



What am I doing wrong?

How to make org.kde.discover (Plasma Discover installed as FlatPak) to work with APT, Snap and FlatPak of the system?





Some background: I want to stay on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and have GUI for FlatPak and Snap. This question was the first step.



Notes: I have tested this method on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Plasma Discover has the same behavior on it.







16.04 apt snap flatpak






share|improve this question















share|improve this question













share|improve this question




share|improve this question








edited Aug 24 '18 at 9:04







N0rbert

















asked Aug 23 '18 at 20:47









N0rbertN0rbert

22.3k648106




22.3k648106













  • From much of what I've read, Plasma Discover, even in Kubuntu Bionic and Cosmic, is a bit dicey. So it is the focus of heavy development. Also, I'm guessing that Plasma Discover, the version using 5.13, is somewhat out of place on Ubuntu Xenial which will have older versions of APT, Snap, etc. I doubt whether Discover is backwards-compatible. Users of Cosmic just got updated to 5.13 a day before feature freeze. I can't help in any way, but would like to know why you're trying this on Xenial instead of in Cosmic?

    – DK Bose
    Aug 24 '18 at 2:32








  • 1





    This question is logic continuation of my other question - I want to have GUI for FlatPak and Snap on 16.04 LTS. Thank you for comment, @DKBose , anyway!

    – N0rbert
    Aug 24 '18 at 8:59











  • IIRC, flatpaks are sandboxed. Installing discover as flatpak doesn't really make sense to me unless there is a way to un-sandbox it. As a side note: if it were possible, what would happen if you uninstall flatpak from discover running as a flatpak?

    – danzel
    Jan 4 at 15:08



















  • From much of what I've read, Plasma Discover, even in Kubuntu Bionic and Cosmic, is a bit dicey. So it is the focus of heavy development. Also, I'm guessing that Plasma Discover, the version using 5.13, is somewhat out of place on Ubuntu Xenial which will have older versions of APT, Snap, etc. I doubt whether Discover is backwards-compatible. Users of Cosmic just got updated to 5.13 a day before feature freeze. I can't help in any way, but would like to know why you're trying this on Xenial instead of in Cosmic?

    – DK Bose
    Aug 24 '18 at 2:32








  • 1





    This question is logic continuation of my other question - I want to have GUI for FlatPak and Snap on 16.04 LTS. Thank you for comment, @DKBose , anyway!

    – N0rbert
    Aug 24 '18 at 8:59











  • IIRC, flatpaks are sandboxed. Installing discover as flatpak doesn't really make sense to me unless there is a way to un-sandbox it. As a side note: if it were possible, what would happen if you uninstall flatpak from discover running as a flatpak?

    – danzel
    Jan 4 at 15:08

















From much of what I've read, Plasma Discover, even in Kubuntu Bionic and Cosmic, is a bit dicey. So it is the focus of heavy development. Also, I'm guessing that Plasma Discover, the version using 5.13, is somewhat out of place on Ubuntu Xenial which will have older versions of APT, Snap, etc. I doubt whether Discover is backwards-compatible. Users of Cosmic just got updated to 5.13 a day before feature freeze. I can't help in any way, but would like to know why you're trying this on Xenial instead of in Cosmic?

– DK Bose
Aug 24 '18 at 2:32







From much of what I've read, Plasma Discover, even in Kubuntu Bionic and Cosmic, is a bit dicey. So it is the focus of heavy development. Also, I'm guessing that Plasma Discover, the version using 5.13, is somewhat out of place on Ubuntu Xenial which will have older versions of APT, Snap, etc. I doubt whether Discover is backwards-compatible. Users of Cosmic just got updated to 5.13 a day before feature freeze. I can't help in any way, but would like to know why you're trying this on Xenial instead of in Cosmic?

– DK Bose
Aug 24 '18 at 2:32






1




1





This question is logic continuation of my other question - I want to have GUI for FlatPak and Snap on 16.04 LTS. Thank you for comment, @DKBose , anyway!

– N0rbert
Aug 24 '18 at 8:59





This question is logic continuation of my other question - I want to have GUI for FlatPak and Snap on 16.04 LTS. Thank you for comment, @DKBose , anyway!

– N0rbert
Aug 24 '18 at 8:59













IIRC, flatpaks are sandboxed. Installing discover as flatpak doesn't really make sense to me unless there is a way to un-sandbox it. As a side note: if it were possible, what would happen if you uninstall flatpak from discover running as a flatpak?

– danzel
Jan 4 at 15:08





IIRC, flatpaks are sandboxed. Installing discover as flatpak doesn't really make sense to me unless there is a way to un-sandbox it. As a side note: if it were possible, what would happen if you uninstall flatpak from discover running as a flatpak?

– danzel
Jan 4 at 15:08










1 Answer
1






active

oldest

votes


















3





+100









As far as I know, what you want to achieve is not possible because flatpak applications are sandboxed.



I don't know any KDE developer, but judging by this commit and this blog post, they probably use the discover flatpak to test the UI. Discover is one prominent showcase of KDE's Kirigami UI. Using a flatpak for this purpose sounds reasonable to me.






share|improve this answer






















    protected by N0rbert Jan 8 at 9:34



    Thank you for your interest in this question.
    Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count).



    Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?














    1 Answer
    1






    active

    oldest

    votes








    1 Answer
    1






    active

    oldest

    votes









    active

    oldest

    votes






    active

    oldest

    votes









    3





    +100









    As far as I know, what you want to achieve is not possible because flatpak applications are sandboxed.



    I don't know any KDE developer, but judging by this commit and this blog post, they probably use the discover flatpak to test the UI. Discover is one prominent showcase of KDE's Kirigami UI. Using a flatpak for this purpose sounds reasonable to me.






    share|improve this answer




























      3





      +100









      As far as I know, what you want to achieve is not possible because flatpak applications are sandboxed.



      I don't know any KDE developer, but judging by this commit and this blog post, they probably use the discover flatpak to test the UI. Discover is one prominent showcase of KDE's Kirigami UI. Using a flatpak for this purpose sounds reasonable to me.






      share|improve this answer


























        3





        +100







        3





        +100



        3




        +100





        As far as I know, what you want to achieve is not possible because flatpak applications are sandboxed.



        I don't know any KDE developer, but judging by this commit and this blog post, they probably use the discover flatpak to test the UI. Discover is one prominent showcase of KDE's Kirigami UI. Using a flatpak for this purpose sounds reasonable to me.






        share|improve this answer













        As far as I know, what you want to achieve is not possible because flatpak applications are sandboxed.



        I don't know any KDE developer, but judging by this commit and this blog post, they probably use the discover flatpak to test the UI. Discover is one prominent showcase of KDE's Kirigami UI. Using a flatpak for this purpose sounds reasonable to me.







        share|improve this answer












        share|improve this answer



        share|improve this answer










        answered Jan 9 at 10:43









        danzeldanzel

        2,047714




        2,047714

















            protected by N0rbert Jan 8 at 9:34



            Thank you for your interest in this question.
            Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count).



            Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?



            Popular posts from this blog

            How to send String Array data to Server using php in android

            Title Spacing in Bjornstrup Chapter, Removing Chapter Number From Contents

            Is anime1.com a legal site for watching anime?