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Install flatpak companion app on debian - is there a howto? - Möph - 2025-02-02
I just tried to install the companion app.
However, I'm new to the "flatpak" game.
Just found out, that my debian requires the "flatpak" packages and my kde needs the "plasma-discover-backend-flatpak" package.
But now I get the following error:
Code:
The application zone.cooltech.tangara.Companion/x86_64/stable requires the runtime org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/47 which was not foundSo far, I have no clue what this means.
Additional package required? But I thought a flatpak brings all the requirements on its own?
Anyone a short "howto" for how to install?
RE: Install flatpak companion app on debian - is there a howto? - TheCraiggers - 2025-02-02
I think most statically-linked deps are contained in the flatpak, but stuff like the UI probably relies on other external flatpaks because of how large (and how common of a dep they are) so I'm not entirely surprised to see a gnome platform package. However, I would have thought flatpak would have resolved that dependency for you; I know I've installed things with flatpak in the past and watched it pull down other requirements first.
Maybe it's possible that the companion app's flatpak doesn't list this as a requirement so it doesn't know it needs to download it too? If so, that would be on one of the devs to fix. But you could work around it by installing it yourself, I think.
Full disclosure: I'm not a flatpak pro, and I'm not on Debian. I've just installed a couple things.
RE: Install flatpak companion app on debian - is there a howto? - Möph - 2025-02-02
Actually, I thought I go the "easy" way and try the packaged thing, rather than look for the source, try to find the dependencies to compile, and so on.
RE: Install flatpak companion app on debian - is there a howto? - redshift - 2025-02-02
(2025-02-02, 03:07 PM)Möph Wrote: Anyone a short "howto" for how to install?
Assuming you have the Flathub repository installed, you should be able to run `flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/47`.
(If you haven't set up Flathub before, run `flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo` first.)
RE: Install flatpak companion app on debian - is there a howto? - Möph - 2025-02-02
No I havent. It will be my 1st flatpak (maybe even the last).
So there has to be some kind of repo. Good to know.
I'll have to try to install one.