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Facing Issues With Installing Flatpak Packages... Help? (self.linux)

submitted 4 months ago by QuestionMark to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone;

I'm trying to install some flatpak packages, but have been unsuccessful. For example, when I run flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice it gets stuck on Looking for matches…. I tried running the command with sudo, and it worked after 3 minutes of hanging on Looking for matches…:

user@JustThinking:~$ sudo flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
Looking for matches…
Required runtime for org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/23.08) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: y

org.libreoffice.LibreOffice permissions:
    ipc       network               fallback-x11          pulseaudio              wayland      x11
    dri       file access [1]       dbus access [2]       bus ownership [3]

    [1] host, xdg-config/fontconfig:ro, xdg-config/gtk-3.0, xdg-run/gvfsd
    [2] com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar, org.gtk.vfs.*
    [3] org.libreoffice.LibreOfficeIpc0


        ID                                              Branch                 Op            Remote            Download
 1. [|] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08                  i             flathub           < 172.2 MB
 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08-extra            i             flathub           < 172.2 MB
 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale                 23.08                  i             flathub           < 360.2 MB (partial)
 4. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel            23.08                  i             flathub            < 13.4 MB
 5. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264               2.2.0                  i             flathub           < 944.3 kB
 6. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Aqua                   3.22                   i             flathub           < 114.8 kB
 7. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform                        23.08                  i             flathub           < 227.5 MB
 8. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale              stable                 i             flathub            < 84.8 MB (partial)
 9. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice                     stable                 i             flathub           < 323.1 MB

Installing 1/9…

It stayed like this for a while (the [|] didn't change either), until...

        ID                                              Branch                 Op            Remote            Download
 1. [—] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08                  i             flathub               1.0 kB / 172.2 MB
 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default             23.08-extra            i             flathub           < 172.2 MB
 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale                 23.08                  i             flathub           < 360.2 MB (partial)
 4. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel            23.08                  i             flathub            < 13.4 MB
 5. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264               2.2.0                  i             flathub           < 944.3 kB
 6. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Mint-Y-Aqua                   3.22                   i             flathub           < 114.8 kB
 7. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform                        23.08                  i             flathub           < 227.5 MB
 8. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.Locale              stable                 i             flathub            < 84.8 MB (partial)
 9. [ ] org.libreoffice.LibreOffice                     stable                 i             flathub           < 323.1 MB

Installing 1/9…                        0%  0 bytes/s

It will certainly never install with this speed. I stopped it with Control+C.

I tried to install it from Software Manager (mintinstall), but it presents me with a time out error after some waiting: While pulling runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/23.08 from remote flathub: Socket I/O timed out. I'm on Linux Mint 21.3, updated just today. I accidentally installed an older version (installed just a few days ago) and updated two times, didn't work on the older versions either.

Any help would be appreciated.

(BTW, does anyone know why there are two graphic cards in my system info, the second being Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub? That is certainly not a graphics card.)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seems that you cannot access flathub.org for some reasons, a networking issue probably.

[–] bluey 1 points 4 months ago

try setting a lower mtu ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to install in a drive you don't have connected or something? That I/O error is definitely suspicious.

[–] QuestionMark 2 points 4 months ago

I don't think mintinstall lets you change where you're installing the program... Interestingly, I ran flatpak search libreoffice again and it quickly returned some packages, which it didn't do before. Still can't install anything though...

[–] Winged_Hussar 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have you tried using:

flatpak repair

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak-repair

There is a

--dry-run

Option to see if there are any issues before committing the changes.

[–] QuestionMark 2 points 4 months ago

Tried it several times! Didn't fix the issue...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This sounds like a outside issue. I would check your network and then if that is fine check your disk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Others will probably know more than me, but you know you have to install flatpak/flathub first don't you?

[–] QuestionMark 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Linux Mint is supposed to come with Flatpak support by default. Running flatpak remotes shows that I have flathub configured:

Name    Options
flathub system

That said, thank you for answering! I appreciate it, even if it doesn't solve my issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, shows how much I know, lol. I use Kubuntu so I had to install it first. Good luck though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Are you on IPv6?