Background-Story: I did a "flatpak update" on a remote client and every package wants the PW for downloading and for installing again. I had to enter the password like 30 times or more.
Good old flatpak.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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This was rather an issue of flatpaks being installed for the system, so updating requires root. One option would've been to use sudo and another would've been --user. I guess flatpak could be blamed for defaulting to --system, which I'm not sure if the blame is on flatpak or distros, dunno.
Who knows. I avoid flatpak for other reasons!
I specifically install flatpaks of most of my stuff. I really like it
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