Fedora platform 44 flatpak on fedora 45

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i was checking some programs i am not using, removing things on discover

discover found 3 packages to update, two were libraries, nothing uncommon

the third one is 500 mbs package called fedora 44 flatpak with a description that says this

The Fedora Platform is a runtime for Flatpak applications. It contains common libraries that are shared between desktop applications, including GTK 3, GStreamer, Qt 5, Mesa, SDL2, and many others.

i am on f45 beta, is this package normal on f45? i have not installed it yet

2

Flatpak applications can use older versions of packages, sometimes even EoL versions. Nothing to worry about.

3

thank you for your quick reply, it felt weird, i was not expecting it to pull such file

when i ran

sudo dnf update flatpak --refresh

it said nothing to do, but

sudo dnf update --refresh

found the two libraries i mentioned, did i ran tthe wrong command for flatpak?

4

I think so!

This:

sudo dnf update flatpak --refresh

updates the RPM package called flatpak, i.e. the host-side machinery of Flatpak itself.

To update your Flatpak applications, just:

flatpak update
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For flatpak, you do not run “dnf”. So it should be:

flatpak update

Flatpak is its own thing, which is containerized so it doesn’t use system packages. You use dnf to update system packages. So to sum up:

sudo dnf update --refresh

is for system packages. Whereas:

flatpak update

is for flatpak applications. Notice how you do not need sudo for flatpak updates, because they are isolated so they do not need escalated priviledges. I hope this clears things up.

6

thank you all for your replies

7 
flatpak uninstall --unused
8 
Nothing unused to uninstall

i was sure i only had like 1 app using flatpak

flatpak list

gave me all this

Name                   Application ID               Version                  Branch      Origin  Installation
XnView MP              com.xnview.XnViewMP          1.11.7                   stable      flathub system
LibreWolf              ….gitlab.librewolf-community 156.0.1-1                stable      flathub system
Breeze GTK theme       …oraproject.Gtk3theme.Breeze                          3.22        fedora  system
Fedora Platform        org.fedoraproject.Platform   44                       f44         fedora  system
Mesa                   …project.Platform.CL.default                          f44         fedora  system
Mesa                   …project.Platform.GL.default                          f44         fedora  system
fedoraproject platfor… …doraproject.Platform.Locale                          f44         fedora  system
Freedesktop Platform   org.freedesktop.Platform     freedesktop-sdk-25.08.17 25.08       flathub system
Mesa                   …desktop.Platform.GL.default 26.2.2                   25.08       flathub system
Mesa (Extra)           …desktop.Platform.GL.default 26.2.2                   25.08-extra flathub system
Codecs Extra Extension …sktop.Platform.codecs-extra                          25.08-extra flathub system
Document Scanner       org.gnome.SimpleScan         50.0                     stable      fedora  system
Breeze GTK theme       org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze     6.7.2                    3.22        flathub system
JDownloader            org.jdownloader.JDownloader  2.0                      stable      flathub system
Adwaita theme          org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita                                5.15-25.08  flathub system
Adwaita theme          org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita                                6.11        flathub system
KDE Application Platf… org.kde.Platform                                      5.15-25.08  flathub system
KDE Application Platf… org.kde.Platform                                      6.11        flathub system
KWrite                 org.kde.kwrite               26.04.3                  stable      flathub system
VLC                    org.videolan.VLC             3.0.23                   stable      flathub system

quite alot, i was sure i was wasting flatpak potential, lol