Flatpak issues

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Hi all.

I had/have issues with flatpak. I did use a mix of fedora system, flathub system/user flatpaks. This probably caused several issues.

  1. I never received any notifications that there is something wrong.
    I just noticed the issues, because one of my apps installed as fedora system flatpak notified me about an update.
    Now why was there neither a notification nor an error in syslog? Note: I have flatpak autoupdate enabled in software, but don’t have PackageKit installed. Is packagekit responsible to notify me?

  2. When I tried to update system flatpaks I received errors that I could fix by removing fedora system flatpaks, removing some apps I don’t use anymore etc..
    However, now I’m stuck at the following error.

>_ sudo flatpak update
Looking for updates…


        ID                          Branch         Op         Remote          Download
 1. [✗] org.gnome.Sdk.Docs          49             u          flathub         332.4 kB / 195.7 MB

Warning: While pulling runtime/org.gnome.Sdk.Docs/x86_64/49 from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/7e/3dcb88462fba03d9d2672df9789285b361501e07b650b89a6fe96855cc54ff.filez: Server returned HTTP 404
Updates complete.

How do I fix this?

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If you not use it anymore just remove it. The error 404 tells you that it can not be found on the server. So no big harm if you not use this docs anymore.

Before hitting enter read the messages, to see what flatpak tells you.

flatpak remove org.gnome.Sdk.Docs
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Thanks. That got me on the right track. Turned out workbench used that extension. Removing sdk.docs and workbench as system flatpak and installing it as user flatpak solved the issue.