Remove flathub from Software

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There are so many applications that don’t work properly when installing them with “Software” Can I disable the flathub from installation sources?

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Open Software and click on the three stacked lines in the top right
Select Software Repositories and scroll down to Fedora Third Party Repositories and disable Flathub

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We recommend to use command line to install anything and everything. Search in software or on the web, and then use dnf to install. It’s better in both the short and long term.

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I would argue that while installing from the command line can be extremely powerful, any (regular or advanced) user should be able to install software with no issues via the available GUI Software Managers which come preinstalled (GNOME Software in this case).

This is a rather general statement. If you’d need support in troubleshooting, we need more information:

  • Do you have issues only with Flatpaks, and if so, only with Flatpaks from flathub or also from the fedora repo?
  • Are you on a traditional desktop system (e.g. Fedora Workstation), or on an atomic one (e.g. Silverblue).
  • What are the issues you’re experiencing? Are these installation or post-installation issues?
  • If these are installation issues, what output do you get if you try to install a package with issues from the command line (e.g. flatpak install flathub <package>?
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I just checked, my workstation playbook installs 36 applications from Flathub. On that basis, I would disagree with your statement.

But if you have issues with individual Flatpaks, I suggest that you either

  • bring up these issues here so the community can support you,
  • or raise them with the maintainers of the Flatpak so they can improve it.
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Agreed. This has always been the way I install flatpaks.

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The real question should be why “linux” distributions promote flatpak and Flathub.

Despite stuff on Flathub isn’t realated to any distribution so it makes no sense to complain here or elsewhere.

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Can I from my side recommend the distro manager to make the installation of Software optional? It makes things more difficult, not easier.

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The fedora flatpak repo is just converted rpms.

It exists to make current packages accessible for every fedora version and spin. So if you are already on fc42 and the wanted version is already in your repo, there isn’t much use.

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I hear that dealing with Gnome is not easy - but honestly I don’t know from first hand experience. As someone who has been using Linux for a while now I went past Gnome and now use Sway WM and do most things - basically all things - from the command line.

If you do want to engage, the Gnome forums and upstream developers would be the place to do that.

I suspect they are more interested in fixing Gnome Software than removing it.

Linux is imperfect but incedibally powerful, the upside is far less spyware and way more control. The downside is the learning curve.

Break on through to the other side, use the command line and consider whether you need Gnome at all.

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Be aware that uninstalling Software will disable automatic offline updates and no longer notify you about system package or firmware updates
You may uninstall it if you wish
sudo dnf remove gnome-software
After running the above command, log out for around 10 seconds so the old login session fully exits before you can log in.

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One can enable automatic updates frim command line. All desktop functions call command line functions.

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Why? What’s wrong with Software?